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CAP: Pay Attention To Areas In The Shadows of Broadband Internet

admin October 1, 2019 0 Comments

There has been much hype by the authorities recently about the roll out of 5G trial runs in October, while the vast majority of people are still struggling with slow speed and connectivity problems. Consumers’ Association of Penang, (CAP) calls upon the authorities to fix the problems in areas that are in the shadows of broadband Internet, where there are no fibre optic cables and broadband...

The need for a leading Cardiothoracic Surgery Centre for the Northern Region

admin September 20, 2019 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang appeals to the Ministry of Health to upgrade the Penang General Hospital to make it the leading centre for Cardiothoracic Surgery for the Northern region. The department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Penang General Hospital has been operational since 1995 and provides critical care and treatment to thousands of patients from the Northern region. It has...

Police involvement in protecting wildlife is much needed

admin September 18, 2019 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) commends the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Datuk Seri Abdul Hamid Bador for his duty of care and national responsibility towards the protection of our nation’s wildlife. He has made positive statements to combat the smuggling and trafficking scourge with the mobilisation of air, marine and land units to assist the Wildlife Department in thwarting wildlife...

ASEAN must step up action to halt Indonesian forest fires

admin September 13, 2019 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) welcomes the move by the Malaysian Prime Minister in reaching out to his Indonesian counterpart in addressing the increasing transboundary haze problem which is seriously affecting Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. We sincerely hope that urgent measures will be taken by the Indonesian authorities to halt the forest fires stemming from Indonesia, as monitoring...

CAP Decries the Institutional Blindness to Poverty and Calls for Urgent RCI

admin September 11, 2019 0 Comments

CAP is pleased to note that senior parliamentarian YB Lim Kit Siang has supported CAP’s call on 3 September 2019 for a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) to be formed to address the poverty scandal highlighted by UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston. Ever since Professor Alston’s expose that our poverty rate is a shocking 15% or higher, information...

Are we having a ‘fire-sale’?

admin September 9, 2019 0 Comments

With the anti-government protest going on in Hong Kong, Malaysian developers are making a beeline to attract Hong Kong investors to buy properties here. This may ease the overhang in the local property market but it is not going to solve housing problems faced by our people. Penang, Selangor, and Johor have set the highest minimum property prices for foreigners to acquire properties. For Selangor...

Developers turn state’s low cost housing policy into a charade

admin September 5, 2019 0 Comments

CAP fully supports the Penang state government's 30% compliance clause imposed on housing developers. Under this clause, 30% of the housing units built by developers have to be of the low-cost (RM42,000) and low medium cost (RM72,500) types. However, the state leaves it to the developers to do the sales of these units and it keeps a blind eye to the fact that developers are not selling the units...

CAP calls for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into Malaysia’s poverty scandal

admin September 3, 2019 0 Comments

Last week U.N. special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, announced that Malaysia had been fudging its poverty measurement and that it’s poverty rate is much higher than official reports. Instead of an official poverty rate of 0.4%, Malaysia’s real poverty rate is at an estimated 15%. What it means is that Government policies of the recent past have not been...

RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE GRANITO STATE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY (SCI) MUST BE TRANSLATED INTO ACTION BY GOVERNMENT AGENCIES

admin August 30, 2019 0 Comments

The recommendations of the State Commission of Inquiry (SCI) on the Granito tragedy in Tanjung Bungah that led to the deaths of 11 workers on 21 October 2017, must be urgently translated into action and given effect by all the relevant government agencies. This has to be done in order to avert future tragedies related to hill-site and hillslope developments, not only in Penang but throughout the...

Tackling the Diminishing of Tigers