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Year: 2025

Year: 2025

Play Sand Products Containing Asbestos Recalled in Australia and New Zealand

Lai Cheng November 19, 2025 0 Comments
Last November 12, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published a recall notice from supplier Educational Colours regarding play sand products that were found to contain tremolite asbestos, a naturally occurring asbestos. The products are used by children for art and craft activities or sensory play. “The products may cause a risk to health,” the ACCC warned, advising...
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SILENT BRAIN HACKER

Lai Cheng November 19, 2025 0 Comments
Why We Need to Periodically Disconnect from Our Phones A recent study suggests that taking a 3-day break from using a smartphone can help reset the brain of someone addicted to it. Excessive phone use, especially social media and constant notifications, can overstimulate the brain’s reward system, leading to dependency similar to other forms of addiction. This overuse often results in anxiety,...
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WHY NATURE CONSERVATION MATTERS

Lai Cheng November 17, 2025 0 Comments
It takes only minutes to cut down a forest, drain a wetland, or clear a grassland. But restoring what was lost isn’t measured in days or months – it’s measured in decades, sometimes centuries. A tree can be felled in seconds, but a healthy mature forest takes generations to grow. Wildlife displaced today may never return. Soil that’s stripped or compacted can take a lifetime to heal....
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CAP’s Pioneering Community and Consumer Work – in a Book

Lai Cheng November 17, 2025 0 Comments
People With A Purpose is a book on CAP’s activities and work on community issues and consumer-related matters in the early years. Authored by Troth and Dexter Tiranti, members of the editorial team of the New Internationalist magazine – who described CAP as “one of the country’s highly impressive people’s organisations” – it documents CAP’s important purpose of looking into...
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Microorganisms: The Invisible Forces Sustaining Life and the Climate

Lai Cheng November 17, 2025 0 Comments
Most people, apart from those in the scientific community, have very limited knowledge and understanding of the crucial role that microorganisms play in enabling life on Earth to exist. Unlike other living things that can be seen and heard, microorganisms are invisible to the naked eye. As the earliest forms of life, they are found everywhere on the planet, from the frozen reaches of the Arctic...
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Heavy Drinking Linked to Deadlier Brain Haemorrhages

Lai Cheng November 14, 2025 0 Comments
It’s long been known that heavy drinking raises blood pressure and damages the liver. But a new study suggests it may also deal a devastating blow to the brain – causing life-threatening haemorrhagic strokes. The study, published November 5 in Neurology, found that people who consumed 3 or more alcoholic drinks a day experienced bleeding strokes inside the brain an average of 11 years...
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FLOATING SCHOOLS Bring Education to Remote Areas

Lai Cheng November 14, 2025 0 Comments
In parts of the Philippines, where children once risked their lives crossing rough waters just to reach school, teachers have turned the tide – quite literally. Floating schools and boat classrooms are now bringing education straight to remote island and coastal communities. Here’s how it works. In Puerto Galera (Mindoro), the Sea Adventure School sails to coastal villages, teaching marine...
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World Diabetes Day 2025: Urgent Call to Curb Malaysia’s Rising Diabetes Crisis

Lai Cheng November 13, 2025 0 Comments
Mankind continues to suffer from the ever-growing diabetes epidemic and the rapid rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Ibn Sina (980–1037 CE) commonly known as Avicenna, in his medical encyclopedia “Al-Qanun Fi Al-Tibb” (Arabic for The Canon of Medicine) had a description of diabetes’ symptoms and came out with the term Ziabetes” or “Dianetes” to reflect the polyuric nature of...
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Eating Together Improves Children’s Academic Performance

Lai Cheng November 12, 2025 0 Comments
Eating together as a family offers children more than just nutrition. Studies show family meals are literally linked to better grades. Researchers found that teens who had 4 or more family meals per week were significantly more likely to earn top grades. This practice is also a powerful boost for their language and literacy development – children who regularly eat with their families have been...
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THE KANDY DECLARATION: A Collective Roadmap for Systemic Transformation

Lai Cheng November 12, 2025 0 Comments
From 6 to 13 September 2025, over 700 delegates from more than 100 countries gathered in Kandy, Sri Lanka for the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty. Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, feminist movements, youth, workers, and activists united across continents to renew the global struggle for justice, dignity, and life – giving birth to the Kandy Declaration. More...
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