Category: Environment EN

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is very concerned to learn that papaya trees in Perak were hit by deadly virus. Farmers suffered losses as the only remedy is to chop down all the trees. It is reported that the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries had offered supplies of papaya seeds as assistance to farmers that were hit by the latest virus attack. Malaysian papaya...

CAP wishes to bring to the attention of the Tourism Ministry and the Penang State Government regarding the level of cleanliness and beauty of Penang which is very disappointing, and the naming of this island as Pearl of the Orient is just empty talk. Recently, Jakob Von Uexkull from Sweden had visited Penang. He is the founder and Chairman of Right Livelihood Foundation which was established in...

Approximately two thirds of Ecuador’s population voted “yes” this Autumn in a historic, national referendum — a result that reflects the vast majority’s hopeful expectation of political change. By an overwhelming margin, the Ecuadorians backed their president, Rafael Correa, in voting for a new progressive constitution — the first in the world to grant Nature the same inalienable...