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Are nano spray gun sanitising liquids safe? MoH must answer

Admin September 19, 2021 0 Comments

Nano spray guns are commonly used at home and workplaces during this current pandemic but the sanitising liquids available in the market should be investigated by the Health Ministry (MoH). The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges MoH to address this issue urgently because of the widespread use of nano spray guns. Information from MoH on the sanitising liquids for these guns are scant yet...

Garbology – Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash

Admin September 17, 2021 0 Comments

“What is America's largest export, most prodigious product and greatest legacy -- the biggest thing we make? Our trash. Americans make more trash than anyone else on the planet, throwing away about 7.1 pounds per person per day, 365 days a year. Across a lifetime that rate means, on average, we are each on track to generate 102 tons of trash. Each of our bodies may occupy only one cemetery...

Enact Federal Law for Water Resource Protection

Admin September 15, 2021 0 Comments

Our rivers are dying due to human activities. Ten days ago there was water supply disruption to 463 areas in Selangor due to pollution in Sungai Semenyih. Water cuts have become endemic in Selangor despite millions of ringgit spent on reports by experts on improving water resource and water delivery services governance and management. The government needs to implement the recommendations made in...

CAP URGES TO MONITOR FOOD PRICES

Admin September 8, 2021 0 Comments

The Consumers' Association of Penang (CAP) urged the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs (KPDNHEP) and the Federal Agricultural Marketing Authority (Fama) to take immediate action in reducing the prices of vegetables and fruits, as study has shown that their prices had increased drastically over the last two weeks. The price of chicken increased from RM 9 to RM10 per kilogram...

VICTORY FOR FISHERMEN in Penang South Reclamation Project

Admin September 8, 2021 0 Comments

WED (8 September 2021): The fishing community in the vicinity of the proposed Penang South Reclamation (PSR) Project has won its appeal at the Department of Environment (DOE) that resulted in the revocation of the Penang South Islands’ (PSI) environmental impact assessment (EIA) approval. "This decision is very significant as it is not only important for the PSR case but all EIA approvals as...

CAP: Zoo is an archaic concept in a modern era

Admin September 7, 2021 0 Comments

The current Covid-19 pandemic has posed a serious challenge to zoo operations because they generally survive on gate collections, rentals, and on support from donors and sponsors. Lockdowns badly affected gate collections and financial aids and these are what many zoos depend on. Closer to home, the annual operational cost of keeping the two giant pandas from China was RM2.25 million in 2015....

Adopt a two-prong approach to green the country

Admin September 4, 2021 0 Comments

The Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) welcomes the government’s 100 Million Tree-Planting Campaign 2021-2025 as a move to green the country but it has to ensure that the task should not be given to any private companies in handling it. The campaign should empower the people to get involved in the planting under the supervision of the Forestry Department. In this way much money can be saved...

A new outlook for the Malaysia’s elderly population needed

Admin September 3, 2021 0 Comments

In anticipation of the International Day of Older Persons which falls on 1 October, the Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) urges the government to prioritise the drafting of a bill to safeguard the rights of the elderly. In September 2019, the Malaysian government had wanted to draft the bill basing on the outcome of a 15-month study conducted by Universiti Malaya and the study should have...

Can we escape from this global pandemic?

Admin September 2, 2021 0 Comments

“Any attempt to solve the ecological crisis within a bourgeois framework must be dismissed as chimerical. Capitalism is inherently anti-ecological. Competition and accumulation constitute its very law of life, a law … summarised in the phrase, ‘production for the sake of production.’ Anything, however hallowed or rare, ‘has its price’ and is fair game for the marketplace. In a...

CPTPP And The Agricultural Sector: A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two in The Bush