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The China Ban’s Wake-Up Call: Recycling is Not Enough

admin January 22, 2018 0 Comments

Leaders from Around the World Demand Less Plastic January 22, 2018-Recycling professionals, environmentalists, and policy influencers are calling for a significant reduction in the production of plastics, citing China’s recent ban on plastic waste imports from other countries as a “wake-up call” that we can’t recycle our way out of plastic pollution. GAIA, with the help of core partners...

Electrocution of Elephant Should Not Be Taken Lightly

admin January 19, 2018 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) is astounded at the death of yet another wild elephant in Gerik, Perak. The incident occurred on January 3rd when a 40 year old female elephant was electrocuted by a live wire on a construction site. The herd of elephants come into populated areas foraging for food. These pachyderms have lost their natural habitats due to extensive and uncontrolled land clearance...

CAP: Ban air fresheners and fragrances in public places

admin January 18, 2018 0 Comments

CAP President at Ban Fragrances Press Conference. The Consumers Association of Penang calls on the authorities to promulgate laws to ban the use of fragrances in public places as it is hazardous to health. The ban should include the use of air freshener and perfume. Driven by advertisements that promote scented environments as clean and healthy, it is common to find air fresheners being used in...

BANKRUPTCY CASES AILS THE NATION

admin January 15, 2018 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is concerned about the number of Malaysians driven to bankruptcy or on the brink of it. More than quarter of a million people – 294,000 Malaysians to be exact – are involved in bankruptcy cases. It is largely attributed to their failure to settle their hire purchase loans, credit card loans, personal loans, housing loans and social guarantors (due...

SAM Urges Authorities To Address Problems Faced By Teluk Bahang Coastal Fishers

admin January 11, 2018 0 Comments

PENANG: Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Penang state government and local authority to investigate and take immediate action to address the problems faced by the Teluk Bahang coastal fishers here. In a survey conducted by SAM after receiving complaints from the fishermen, we found that the pollution from concrete wastes on coastal and marine...

Issue 47-5 Nov-Dec 2017

admin January 2, 2018 0 Comments

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 political parties. You can expect our views and perspectives to be different, for we are on the side of consumers.

Make Public State Action Plan on Paired Road Projects

admin December 29, 2017 0 Comments

The Tanjung Bungah Residents Association (TBRA) deeply regrets the approval by the Department of Environment (DOE) of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the three paired road projects on 10 November this year. TBRA has learnt about this from the Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) who were informed about the EIA approval by the DOE.We also have learnt that the Penang State...

BE PRUDENT IN SPENDING ON SCHOOL UNIFORMS

admin December 28, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very concerned not only about the rapid increase in the prices of school supplies but how parents tend to spoil their children by buying them new sets of uniform and other school supplies when school reopens. Parents should be prudent with their spending on school items, even more so with the prices of particularly school uniforms having increased...

Objection of Clearcut Logging Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve

admin December 21, 2017 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) objects to clear cut logging of trees covering 500 hectares in parts of Bukit Enggang Forest Reserve (Compartments 12, 13, 14 & 15 of HS Bukit Enggang) for the purpose of establishing a forest plantation (monoculture cultivation in a Permanent Reserved Forest). The extractive activity (logging) by uncontrolled clear cutting of original forest trees had caused...

TABUNG HAJI SHOULD HANDLE UMRAH MATTERS

admin December 19, 2017 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very disappointed with the Imams (Integrated Manasik Monitoring System) issue and how it has been handled. The Umrah Regulatory Management Council claimed that Imams was put in place to stop the ever increasing number of Umrah scams that are happening every year. Why was it necessary to create a system that was going to be run by a third party...

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