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Mak Fai

Wasteful pedestrian bridges not useful

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
CAP questions the Governments rationale behind its propensity for overhead pedestrian bridges. They are an encumbrance to most pedestrians and not a convenience as is the preferred belief. They are also a deplorable waste of public funds. On Penang island alone there are at least 12 of these overhead bridges. They cost anything between RM750,000.00 (in 2005) to RM1 million or more to build today....
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Do you know how our hospital wastes are disposed?

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
CAP is disturbed at the findings in the Auditor General’s Report 2007 on the appalling methods used to dispose of clinical waste at hospitals and clinics. Clinical waste can be described as any waste which consists wholly or partly of human or animal tissue, blood or other bodily fluids and excretions. It can also include drugs or other pharmaceutical products, swabs or dressings, and...
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What is an alcohol company doing in our schools?

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
CAP is disturbed to learn that the Guinness Anchor Bhd (GAB) Foundation is providing 6 schools in Ijok and Kuala Selangor with new reading corners under its Supporting Malaysian Indian Learning Education and Sports (SMILES) programme. This is said to be the second project the GAB Foundation is undertaking with 5 of these 6 schools, whereby in 2008, GAB had already contributed school-going...
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Don’t make alcohol so conveniently available

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
CAP views with concern the comments by the executive director, Ng Su Onn, that consumers wishing to buy liquor at 7-Eleven outlets may be required to show their identity cards. We do not expect any real enforcement of this ruling when none has been apparent before. The staff manning the counters at these convenience stores are themselves usually quite young and we do not see them implementing...
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A credible Housing Policy is long overdue

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
Having decent shelter, adequate food, good health care and education are basic human rights of our citizens. The government has a moral responsibility to ensure that majority of its citizens can either own their house or afford to rent public housing. Sadly for the citizens the government is not taking the problem seriously or is going about it the wrong way. For if it was genuine in making...
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Rethink on export-led growth paradigm

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
The slowdown in the US economy has heightened the urgency for developing and emerging economies to change their growth strategies. By Kanaga Raja The developing and emerging-market economies that have focussed their current export-oriented strategies on the markets of the major developed economies for achieving growth and job creation should rethink their policies, the United Nations Conference...
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What is trade justice?

admin April 20, 2011 0 Comments
The right to choose trade policies Poor people have the right to benefit from trade. Poor countries must be able to choose economic policies, including trade policies that work to reduce poverty. They need the freedom to help support and protect their vulnerable enterprises and traders in the most appropriate way. These policies should not be based on the `advice' of the rich. They should be...
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What’s wrong with trade?

admin April 20, 2011 0 Comments
We live in a world of outrageous inequality, with millions of people trapped in poverty. More than anything else it is the institutions, conditions, rules and practices of international trade that keep poor people poor. It is now more important than ever that this situation be transformed. The facts and arguments below will show you the ill effects of trade to those in the developing countries....
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Utilitarian Free Trade killed millions in China and India

admin April 20, 2011 0 Comments
According to a briefing paper by a UK advocacy group, nearly 50 million people in India and China died at the end of the 19th century as a result of these countries being forcibly incorporated into the economic and political structures of the modern world system of that era. By Chakravarthi Raghavan GENEVA: The famines and deaths of 50 million people in India and China at the end of the 19th...
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The sorry state of Orang Asli health

admin April 20, 2011 0 Comments
The recent disclosures made by Dr. Selva Vathany Pillai concerning malpractice and the misappropriation of resources by hospital authorities at the Gombak Hospital, brings into stark focus, the social and health status of this community. The Orang Asli, (aboriginal peoples), who are the most marginalised community in the country continue to suffer the loss of their lands through resettlement,...
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