Category: Development EN

"The overwhelming majority of movies shown are American; and many are off the same assembly line as "One False Move". That is to say, they are corrupt; they celebrate violence for the sake of it, and for a buck. They also promote the sexualisation of true violence, the kind that rapes and kills. In "One False Move", one of the psychopaths holds a knife to his girlfriend's throat and she coos at...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is appalled by the latest consignment of the last of the four ferries in service to the workshop for “technical reasons”, stranding thousands of commuters who depended on the ferry service. It was only end July when five of the ferries were out of order and commuters had to wait for about an hour for the ferry. Commuters had to be shuttled from...

THE TROJAN HORSES "Our sanctimonious missions of civilization, development, conscientization, modernization, social change, democratization, liberation, social justice, and even of co-operation and international solidarity, are often TROJAN HORSES vis-a-vis the traditions of Africa, Asia and the Americas. It is in this sense that, > in the name of literacy, the oral traditions of the local...

I’M IN LOVE Because She is so beautiful and attractive I can show off to others and improve my status Her performance is unbelievable I can be killed if I am not careful. POWER She is my life partner and demands all my attention I will have to feed her well and plan my life around her She is my God And I will obey her commands When will I get her... My dream car

GLOBAL CORPORATE RULE. Why the trans-Pacific trade agreement (CPTPP) should not be ratified by Malaysia. The proliferation of free trade agreements; internationaland bilateral agreements; and the World Trade Organisation have ushered in an era of corporate rule. Juan Hernandez Zubizaretta has written, "the reinterpretation of legislation in favour of capital and transnational corporations and...

A wide spectrum of organisations working for consumers, public health, small and medium sized businesses, farmers and the environment strongly call on Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin and his government to not ratify the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). These groups have consistently raised concerns with successive Malaysian governments about...

We, the undersigned organisations, have consistently raised concerns with successive Malaysian governments about the serious implications for Malaysia of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), which merely temporarily suspended 22 of the more than 1000 provisions mostly imposed by the USA in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA). Former...

Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively...

It is completely outrageous for the Selangor Football Association, Red Giants Team Card, to turn to Vape Empire Distribution for sponsorship. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) finds that such sponsorship a blatant act to sabotage the government’s effort to curb nicotine addiction and questions what a hazardous cocktail of chemicals such as those found in vape to do with a healthy...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is shocked by how Rapid Ferry is operated, without alerting the public of a schedule change to one-trip-an-hour from two-trips-an-hour previously. It grossly lacked foresight and planning, causing inconvenience to motorists and pedestrian commuters taking the ferry. We cannot comprehend how an entire fleet of six ferries between Penang Island and...