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Don’t trade away Malaysians’ access to affordable medicines

Lai Cheng May 7, 2025 0 Comments
In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff wars and growing global trade volatility, countries across the Global South, Malaysia included, have turned to free trade agreements (FTAs) to diversify markets and reduce economic risk. During the Special Parliamentary Session to discuss the US tariffs on 5th May, Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced that Malaysia has...
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COPENHAGEN SHOWS CAR-FREE CITIES ARE POSSIBLE

Lai Cheng May 6, 2025 0 Comments
Car-free initiatives are often disregarded as utopian and difficult to implement on any meaningful scale. Critics will say they’re only good for small towns. If that’s the case, somebody should tell Copenhagen, Amsterdam, and Oslo, whose largely car-free centres prove that with proper planning, education, and infrastructure, car-free cities are indeed very possible and functional. Source:...
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ARE YOU USING TOO MUCH TOOTHPASTE?

Lai Cheng May 5, 2025 0 Comments
Brushing your teeth? You don’t need to squeeze a ribbon of toothpaste along the length of your toothbrush, just a pea-sized amount is plenty. Young children under 3 should use even less, about the size of a rice grain. According to the Australian Dental Association, less is more for both adults and children when it comes to brushing your pearly whites. Most toothpastes contain fluoride, a...
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Consumer Groups Support Medicine Price Display Law: Transparency for the People, Upholding Consumer Rights

Lai Cheng May 2, 2025 0 Comments
Malaysian consumer groups welcome the enforcement of the medicine price display law, effective 1st May 2025, as a landmark step towards greater transparency, accountability, and consumer empowerment in healthcare. This new regulation, known as the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering (Price Marking for Drug) Order 2025 and gazetted under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011, requires...
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CAP: Bottled water does more harm than good

Lai Cheng May 1, 2025 0 Comments
An advertised promise for safer, purer and healthier water has led Malaysians to consume an average of 150 litres of bottled water annually. Convenience, health considerations and a lack of trust in municipal tap water quality, have propelled this trend. Over the past two decades, bottled water has become a part of every social function. Gone are the days when water was served from a jug. But in...
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6 FOODS THAT NOURISH AND PROTECT YOUR BODY

Lai Cheng April 29, 2025 0 Comments
A primarily plant-based diet will activate more than 500 disease-preventing genes and deactivate more than 200 disease-causing genes. Plant foods have the power to switch on the genes that create health and to switch off the genes that create cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and many of the other ailments of civilization. This is what researchers know from over 30 years of clinical research at...
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KNOW THE SIGNS OF BURNOUT

Lai Cheng April 25, 2025 0 Comments
Burnout is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by prolonged stress and overwork. Left unchecked, it can lead to serious physical and mental health problems, impacting performance, relationships, and overall well-being. Burnout doesn’t happen overnight, it’s a gradual process. It can creep up on you, often unnoticed until it's become a significant problem. And the...
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REWIRE YOUR BRAIN, IMPROVE YOUR LIFE

Lai Cheng April 23, 2025 0 Comments
Want to improve your life? Rewire your brain. By doing this, we can change our thought patterns, habits, and behaviours. It used to be thought that our brain was “hardwired” to function in predetermined ways. The truth is, our brain is not hardwired, it's “softwired” by experience. If we realise certain thought patterns aren’t serving us, and we want to change them, we can “rewire”...
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