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Carlsberg Malaysia should not include any advertisements during their disinfecting campaign in schools

admin April 24, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) would like to relay the mixed feelings we have about the news that Carlsberg Malaysia, through its Safer Schools campaign, is sponsoring disinfection services for 680 vernacular schools in the Covid-19 red zones as well as donating handheld thermometers to all eligible vernacular schools. In this time of uncertainty, it is imperative that big...

RETHINK DEVELOPMENT PARADIGM IN AVERTING FUTURE CRISES DUE TO ENVIRONMENTAL MISMANAGEMENT

admin April 22, 2020 0 Comments

It is Earth Day on April 22. It is a day to remember Mother Earth and how we treat her. This time, Earth Day is happening during the time of COVID-19, when the world economy has been put on brakes, with lockdowns in place to counter the devastating health impacts of the pandemic. It is also a time when greenhouse gas emissions and pollution levels have come down world over, which have not been...

Use of bear bile in COVID-19 treatment should be stopped

admin April 21, 2020 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is gravely concerned to learn that the National Health Commission of China has recommended the use of bear bile in the treatment of severe and critical cases of COVID-19. This move is a blow to conservationists worldwide, as on Feb 24th this year, China declared an immediate and comprehensive ban on the trade in wildlife and the sale of wild animals for food,...

Companies must pay for Covid-19 screening

admin April 20, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) finds it shocking that the Social Security Organisation (Socso) had agreed to bear Covid-19 screening fee for all employees who had to work during the current Movement Control Order (MCO). The International Trade and Industry (Miti) Minister Datuk Seri Azmin Ali had recently announced that employees from companies permitted to operate during the...

Telcos need to be more lenient with their customers during the MCO

admin April 18, 2020 0 Comments

Malaysia is now in the third phase of the Movement Control Order (MCO) and many of us have been cooped up in our homes for a little over five weeks not only working, video conferencing and learning but also shopping and entertaining ourselves over the internet. At times like this the internet and phone line, hence our telco services, have become a critical essential. However, The Consumers’...

FAMA get your act together!

admin April 17, 2020 0 Comments

This is undoubtedly a critical time for the country. Vegetable farmers with their produce to sell. Consumers with a demand for these items. But apparently, somewhere in-between, the supply chain is grossly dysfunctional. Thus, farmers are holding onto their produce and consumers are anticipating vegetable price to increase as early as next week. According to the Consumers’ Association of Penang...

Prices of fresh vegetables hiked

admin April 16, 2020 0 Comments

While the Movement Control Order (MCO) has caused inconvenience and financial constraints to a large segment of consumers, the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked that some retailers are selling their goods at way above their normal prices. A report claimed that Indian onions were sold at 53.85 per cent above their normal price of RM6.50 per kilogramme in Penang at wet markets...

ENVIRONMENT MUST TAKE CENTRE STAGE TO AVERT FUTURE HEALTH AND CLIMATE CRISIS

admin April 16, 2020 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is of the view that the Covid-19 pandemic has shown that if we relentlessly destroy, degrade and encroach on nature and ecosystems, public health will be gravely endangered in ways that we have not imagined before. Indeed, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) noted last week that 75 per cent of all emerging infectious diseases in humans are zoonotic, i.e....

MCO-related policies need clear guidelines

admin April 6, 2020 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is aghast at how the economic stimulus package left gaps of problems unaddressed. Even though the government touted that every tier of society would benefit from the economic stimulus package that was announced on 27th March, there are glaring loopholes that need to be fixed urgently. The government should address the problem of escalating food prices...

Do more for foreign labourers in need

admin April 4, 2020 0 Comments

Governments all over the world have made the decision to put their countries in some form of lockdown as a step to battle the COVID-19 disease. While obviously necessary, the lockdowns have left a segment of these countries’ population in a very vulnerable situation. In Malaysia, the Movement Control Order 2020 (MCO) has put foreign labourers, be they documented or undocumented, in a dangerous...

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