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Indonesia has abandoned plans for high-speed rail project — Why haven’t we?

admin September 15, 2015 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) is glad to see that the Indonesian Government has decided to abandon their plans for a high-speed rail project. Malaysia has also made plans for a HSR project that will connect Kuala Lumpur and Jurong East in Singapore. In May of this year, CAP clearly stated that we are against this project being carried out in Malaysia because of several reasons and...

PROBLEMS FACED BY LIVESTOCK FARMERS IN KAMPUNG KUBANG PALAS MUST BE HANDLED IMMEDIATELY

admin August 27, 2015 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) urges the Kedah state government to maintain grazing land in Kampung Kubang Palas near Kuala Nerang for the use of 200 livestock farmers in this village. The move is justified because the farmers involved are pioneers who have engaged in the livestock rearing activity for generations and are major contributors to the national economy and the supply of...

Resolve problems faced by Balik Pulau fishers

admin August 17, 2015 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) has urged the Fisheries Department and the Penang state government to investigate the source of problems that has led to certain types of marine life in the waters of Balik Pulau threatened and endangered. CAP’s survey found that in addition to high quality fish like Chinese pomfret and Silver pomfret, other marine life such as cockles, mussels,...

TPPA Section On State Enterprises Appears To Be Very Damaging: Malaysia Should Not Join In the Conclusion of the TPPA

admin July 31, 2015 0 Comments

The Ministerial meeting of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) now taking place in Hawaii should not reach a conclusion of the negotiations because many important issues of public interest have not been resolved. Moreover the public in Malaysia and other countries are still in the dark over what is being negotiated or agreed to. Even if other countries are willing to reach a...

Protest Proposed Small Hydro-electric Project Upstream of Sungkai River, Sungkai Province, Batang Padang District, Perak

Admin July 30, 2015 0 Comments

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) urges the Perak State authorities to scrap the small hydroelectric project proposed to be built upstream of the Sungkai River in Sungkai Province, Batang Padang District, state of Perak. SAM calls upon the State to consider the plight of the Orang Asli community in Sungkai Province who do not agree and object to the proposed small hydropower project here. The Orang...

Farmers in Malaysia threatened by intellectual property treaty

admin June 5, 2015 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang strongly calls on the Government not to join the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants of 1991 (UPOV 1991). There is a proposal in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) to require membership of UPOV 1991 by the participating countries. However, there is growing concern globally that UPOV 1991 establishes an...

Telekom Malaysia Needs an Overhaul

admin June 4, 2015 0 Comments

Telekom Malaysia must take serious efforts to improve its services, as it is the oldest and biggest telecommunications service provider in the nation. There have been numerous complaints which have not been dealt with properly. The complaints that CAP has received we have taken up with the Malaysian Communication & Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Consumer Forum Malaysia (CFM) and TM as well...

The Secret Corporate Takeover

admin May 19, 2015 0 Comments

By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK – The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, largely in the US and the European Union. Today, such deals are more often referred to as “partnerships,”as in the Trans-Pacific...

Senior lawmakers from TPP countries call on leaders to protect national sovereignty from US certification

admin May 15, 2015 0 Comments

Senior parliamentarians from five countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have signed an open letter urging their political leaders to protect their nations’ sovereignty from the United States’ process of certification. The signatories from Australia, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, and New Zealand include prominent former parliamentarians as well as current leaders of...

TPP: Malaysia Must Withdraw Now Since No US Fast Track Authority

admin May 13, 2015 0 Comments

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) calls upon the Malaysian government to withdraw from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement negotiations as the US Senate had last night voted against considering fast track authority at this time. The US Senate was supposed to be where the Fast Track or Trade Promotion Authority would pass easily. However the Senate voted 52-45, short of the 60...

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