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H1N1: The real pandemic

admin March 15, 2011 0 Comments

Take swine flu — now renamed. We know it started in La Gloria, a little town in Mexico. We know a young boy suffering from fever in March became the first confirmed victim of the current outbreak, which, even as I write, has claimed some 42 people and affected 2,371 in 24 countries. What is not said is this ill-fated town is right next to one of Mexico’s biggest hog factories, owned by the...

The new facts about fat

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Cod-liver oil, the fishy liquid some of us were forced to swallow as children to help ward off colds, may be making a comeback. These days it’s sold in capsules and shares shelf space in the supplements aisle with other omega-3 and fish-oil pills. And an August 2007 study of some 22,000 people from Norway suggests it may help ward off depression. Cod-liver oil isn’t the only dietary fat...

Discontinue new rare earth plant in Gebeng

admin March 11, 2011 0 Comments

The Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) are very concerned with the Pahang State Government's decision to go ahead with the proposed rare earth plant in Gebeng despite the fact that this refinery is a disaster waiting to happen. In 2007, SAM was invited by the Terengganu Government to give a briefing on the dangers of rare earth and SAM’s experience dealing...

Chronology of events in the Bukit Merah Asian Rare Earth development

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Eight men -- a welder, a shoemaker, a general worker, a pensioner, a barber, a tractor driver, a crane-operator and a cancer victim who was to die shortly -- sued Asian Rare Earth in 1985 on behalf of themselves and 10,000 other residents of Bukit Merah and the environs in Perak. They wanted to shut down this rare earth plant in their village near Ipoh because its radioactive waste was...

Vision & Mission

admin March 6, 2011 0 Comments

Vision Giving a voice to the little people - that is the objective of the Consumers’ Association of Penang. And that’s what we have been doing since our establishment in 1970. CAP is a consumer organization with a difference. Fighting for fair prices and good quality products and services is just one of our many activities. Our main concern is ensuring the right of every consumer to basic...

Featured Videos

admin March 6, 2011 0 Comments

CAP presents latest featured videos Changing education paradigms: An important, timely talk for parents and teachers. Toxic Profits? : An Aljazeera video on the Lynas rare earth project in Gebeng, Kuantan The Warriors of Qiugang :Oscar 2011 Nomination for Documentary(Short Subject) The Story of Bottled Water Organic Farming Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 CAP's Farmers Training Part...

Call off Shrimp Farming!

admin March 2, 2011 0 Comments

Shrimp farming has again wielded its ugly image, the latest being discharge from several shrimp farms in Kuala Selangor that has polluted neighbouring mangroves swathes and threatened the firefly colony and other marine life in Kuala Selangor. Over the years, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has been objecting the development and expansion of shrimp farming in Malaysia as it has...

Issue 41-1 Jan-Feb 2011

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U N C O M M O N E X P O S E S , V I E W S & W I S D O M Bimonthly Paper of Consumers Association of Penang We have stories which you will not find in other papers -- hard-hitting stuff with no holds barred, for we name the brands, companies or people in our exposes, unlike the commercial papers which are dependent on companies for their advertisements or are owned by poltical...

Revoke approval for field trial of genetically modified mosquitoes

admin January 17, 2011 0 Comments

CAP and Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) call upon the National Biosafety Board (NBB) to revoke the approval given to the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in October 2010 to release genetically modified (GM) male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for the purpose of a field experiment. The applicant and implementer of the field trial is the IMR which had developed the GM mosquitoes in a joint research with...

Electricity theft and unfair Power Purchase Agreements drain revenue

admin January 14, 2011 0 Comments

Electricity theft is costing the national utility company, Tenaga National Bhd (TNB) nearly RM500 million annually. Over and above all this, TNB has already parted with an estimated RM78.3b of its revenue to Independent Power Producers (IPPs) over the last ten years. Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP), is concerned that eventually consumers will have to suffer from exorbitant tariff...

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