Category: Development EN

The American dream spells DOOM for planet earth. AND WE STILL CRAVE IT. If everyone in the world lived as Americans do, we would need 5 Earths to support humanity.

It was reported on 21 July that a foreign worker was buried alive at a construction site in Kota Damansara and passed away as he was being rushed to the hospital. Preliminary investigation showed that the walls caved in as he was assembling an underground waste disposal pipe. The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is outraged by this news as this is certainly not the first time an accident...

"Just like paedophiles, marketers have become child experts” — Michael Brody, who chaired the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry’s television and media committee. Strong words, perhaps. But it is time to return parents, teachers… to their rightful roles as the real experts on children

One cultural element after another has been absorbed into the ever-widening economy, subjected to the test of economic rationality, rationalised and turned into a commodity or factor of production. So pervasive has the process been that it now seems that anything can be thought of as a commodity and its value measured by a price... time, land, capital, labour; also personality itself and even...

Many people are so HUNGRY for POWER, WEALTH and DOMINATION thinking it will get them HAPPINESS, LOVE and APPRECIATION. That is their ultimate hunger, but the love they get is FAKE as once they lose their power and wealth, or when they die, they will be broken and disappointed.

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls on the government to investigate into the recent case of a Libyan expatriate who was not allowed to rent a condominium unit in the Cyberjaya neighbourhood. The management of property had barred Africans from renting any unit there. Malaysia needs to seriously reflect how it can allow such explicit racism manifest in our multiethnic and multi...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) cautions the government about the formulating of the Temporary Measures Bill that prevents housing developers and homebuyers from suing one another as a result of the delay in completion consequential to Covid-19 pandemic. Although it is fair that the completion date be extended because of the interruption caused by pandemic, the law should not...