Category: Development EN

People With A Purpose is a book on CAP’s activities and work on community issues and consumer-related matters in the early years. Authored by Troth and Dexter Tiranti, members of the editorial team of the New Internationalist magazine – who described CAP as “one of the country’s highly impressive people’s organisations” – it documents CAP’s important purpose of looking into...

In parts of the Philippines, where children once risked their lives crossing rough waters just to reach school, teachers have turned the tide – quite literally. Floating schools and boat classrooms are now bringing education straight to remote island and coastal communities. Here’s how it works. In Puerto Galera (Mindoro), the Sea Adventure School sails to coastal villages, teaching marine...

From 6 to 13 September 2025, over 700 delegates from more than 100 countries gathered in Kandy, Sri Lanka for the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum for Food Sovereignty. Peasants, Indigenous Peoples, pastoralists, fishers, feminist movements, youth, workers, and activists united across continents to renew the global struggle for justice, dignity, and life – giving birth to the Kandy Declaration. More...

How Singapore’s Changi Airport Saves Over 8 Million Gallons of Water a Year Singapore’s Changi Airport isn’t just a travel hub – it’s a blueprint for sustainable infrastructure. At the heart of Jewel Changi lies the stunning Rain Vortex – the world’s tallest indoor waterfall, powered by harvested rainwater collected from its enormous dome-shaped roof. Instead of letting tropical...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) wishes to draw attention to the potential harms posed by artificial intelligence (AI), even as society rightly acknowledges its many advantages. AI can be a powerful tool for progress, but it also carries risks that must not be overlooked, from fostering psychological dependence and enabling manipulation to facilitating deception on an unprecedented...

Malaysia has just signed a trade agreement with the United States that strips away our regulatory autonomy, subordinates our foreign policy to Washington's interests, constrains our ability to raise revenue, and commits us to spending a staggering US$220 billion over the next decade. This is not a reciprocal trade agreement. It is a capitulation dressed up as commerce. The Consumers’...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) strongly urges the Government and the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) to immediately discontinue the practice of offering discounts on traffic summonses, including the recently announced 70 percent discount on summonses from November 1 to December 30, 2025. Such offers make a mockery of the law and severely undermine the credibility of enforcement...

Kuala Lumpur/ Jakarta / Manila / Bangkok: 23 October 2025 — Ahead of the 2025 ASEAN Summit, a coalition of civil society organizations from across ASEAN is calling for greater transparency and meaningful public engagement in the ongoing negotiations of the Digital Economy Framework Agreement (DEFA), a major regional trade agreement that aims to establish binding and enforceable digital rules...

The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) applauds several consumer-focused measures announced on 10 October 2025 in the 2026 Budget, including the long-awaited Lemon Law and the proposed Anti-Bullying Bill. The Ministry of Education (MoE) should expedite the drafting of new amendments to the Education Regulations (Student Discipline) under the Education Act 1996, as the number of reported...

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) lauds some of the measures outlined in the National Budget 2026 but is at the same time disappointed that the government is not taking more effective measures to protect the nation’s health and the environment. CAP welcomes the introduction of the Lemon Law through the amendments to the Consumer Protection Act. CAP has been actively campaigning for a...