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Rokok elektronik bukan sekadar wap air berperisa, ia mengandungi NIKOTIN yang menyebabkan ketagihan.Pendedahan nikotin kepada otak pelajar menyebabkan gangguan kepada perkembangan otak.Selain itu, remaja yang telah terjerat dengan ketagihan nikotin berisiko untuk terjebak dengan ketagihan dadah lain.
.Kajian TECMA menunjukkan 300 ribu pelajar sekolah di Malaysia merupakan pengguna rokok elektronik.Penemuan ini merupakan amaran kepada kita semua khususnya kepada pemimpin masyarakat.
* Negara jiran termasuk Singapura, Brunei dan Thailand telah mengharamkan penjualan rokok elektronik di negara mereka.
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CYBERJAYA: Those intending to sell their electronic devices, like smartphone and computer, are advised to send them to CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM) for data sanitisation to avoid the theft of their personal data.CSM chief executive officer Datuk Dr Amiruddin Abdul Wahab said the move would help curb cyber harassment, as well as prevent them from becoming victims of exploitation by irresponsible quarters.
“Usually, consumers simply delete the data themselves, like their pictures and documents, before selling their smartphones or computers. It is dangerous because although the data has been deleted, it can still be recovered,” he said in an interview.Amiruddin said CSM, through its MyCyberSecurity Clinic, provided data sanitisation service to the public, including companies, to help maintain their safety and privacy.He said CSM has also set up a one-stop cyber centre known as Cyber999 for the public to lodge complaints on cybercrime and to date, it had received nearly 100,000 reports.
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KUALA LUMPUR 12 Mei - Akta Jalan, Parit dan Bangunan 1974 (Akta 133) dan Undang-undang Kecil Bangunan Seragam 1984 perlu dipinda serta dijadikan kriteria tambahan pengeluaran Sijil Perakuan Siap dan Pematuhan (CCC) bagi taman permainan kanak-kanak.Pengerusi Institut Keselamatan dan Kesihatan Pekerjaan Kebangsaan (NIOSH), Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye berkata, usaha tersebut merupakan keperluan dalam mengamalkan budaya mencegah kemalangan dan memastikan keselamatan taman permainan kanak-kanak terjamin.Katanya, buat masa ini pihak yang terbabit perlu melaksanakan audit keselamatan setiap tahun di semua taman permainan kanak-kanak di seluruh negara untuk membantu mengenal pasti masalah dan mengambil tindakan untuk mencegah kemalangan.
“Pihak berkuasa tempatan (PBT) perlu menjalankan audit tersebut dengan bantuan agensi pakar. Mereka juga harus mendapatkan perkhidmatan inspektor keselamatan taman permainan bertauliah untuk membantu kontraktor memasang dan menyelenggara taman permainan di bawah bidang kuasa mereka.“Kita perlu sentiasa proaktif dan bukannya bersikap reaktif apabila berhadapan dengan perkara yang boleh menyebabkan kemalangan atau kecederaan akibat kecuaian atau penyelenggaraan yang lemah,” katanya dalam kenyataan hari ini. - UTUSAN ONLINE
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Jerebu tebal menjejaskan kesihatan cucu saya yang berumur empat tahun”Aileen SundangPeningkatan kes pembakaran terbuka di daerah ini dan daerah berhampiran menjejaskan aktiviti harian penduduk sehingga perlu mengehadkan kegiatan luar rumah.Keadaan itu menyebabkan persekitaran berjerebu apabila Kimanis sebelum ini pernah merekodkan bacaan Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) tidak sihat iaitu melebihi 115.Penduduk Kampung Sabandil, Aileen Sundang, 58, berkata, jerebu yang berlaku sejak awal musim kemarau semakin teruk beberapa hari lalu berikutan kebakaran belukar di kawasan bukit belakang Sekolah Kebangsaan (SK) Sabandil.“Jerebu tebal ini menjejaskan kesihatan cucu saya yang berumur empat tahun. Jadi saya tidak biarkan dia keluar rumah kerana bimbang sesak nafas.“Cuaca panas berpanjangan juga menyebabkan tanaman sayur kering, ditambah pula air graviti di rumah perlahan alirannya,” katanya.
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ILLEGAL plastic recycling factories that have been shut down are known to restart operations again or move to a different location.Kuala Langat Environmental Action Association secretary Pua Lay Peng said it will be tough to eradicate all such illegal factories nationwide by July.“It is doable though if the local councils can strictly monitor and prevent them from secretly restarting their operations.“These plastic recycling factories won’t stop operating so easily as there are still a lot of raw materials for them to work with,” Pua said, adding that the raw materials are cheap to import.It was reported that the authorities aim to shut down all illegal plastic waste recycling factories nationwide by July after surpassing its target to close at least 100 such premises before the first quarter of the year.
According to data released by the Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Ministry (Mestecc), two in every five plastic recycling factories in Malaysia are found to be operating illegally.Mestecc said 109 out of 274 plastic recycling factories that were raided are unlicensed operations.To date, the government has shut down 140 factories, including licensed factories found to be flouting the Environmental Quality Act 1974.Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin said there was a pressing need to shut down illegal premises following the influx of plastic waste brought into the country since the middle of 2017.
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THE recent death of yet another young child from diphtheria, a disease that can be easily prevented by immunisation, is a national tragedy.We should ask ourselves some searching questions: When a young child dies from a preventable disease, whose responsibility is it?It is of course the parents who failed to vaccinate the child. These are not “bad” parents who intentionally want to harm their child, but there is no denying the fact that their reluctance to immunise the child caused his death. Were they unaware of the other children who died recently?There has been sufficient media coverage to know that in 2018, there were 18 cases of young children with diphtheria, and that five died. So why did they expose their child to such a risk?
So why do these parents take such a risky course of action?A certain group of people is also responsible for this child and other children’s death. This is the group that is very loud on social media and quick to give “expert” opinions but fail to be present to take responsibility when children die from easily preventable diseases.They are the alternative and complementary medicine practitioners and some medical doctors. They have brainwashed and misled parents. Religious sensitivities to them are more important than the lives of children.No one is denying the fact that vaccines have side-effects but any sensible review of historical and scientific data will show how vaccines have helped to control many lethal diseases that used to kill and damage thousands of children. The re-emergence of diseases long controlled in the past is due to these anti-vaccine practitioners.I want to ask everyone why we are not taking these anti-vaccine proponents to task. They are the ones who are primarily responsible for the death of the young boy in this latest case.
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KUALA LUMPUR, 21 Feb (Bernama) -- Menteri Komunikasi dan Multimedia Gobind Singh Deo berkata kerajaan sedang meneliti dan mempertimbangkan untuk mewujudkan rang undang-undang (RUU) atau Jawatankuasa Parlimen bagi mengekang penyalahgunaan media sosial sehingga boleh mencetuskan kebencian dan fahaman yang ekstremis.Beliau berkata sudah sampai masanya sistem seperti ini diwujudkan untuk memastikan tiada unsur penyebaran maklumat palsu dilaporkan secara meluas sehingga berisiko mencetus kekacauan.“Kerajaan sedang meneliti beberapa cadangan bukan setakat undang-undang sahaja, ada juga cadangan yang melihat bagaimana kita boleh mewujudkan industri di mana ada peraturan sebelum sesuatu dilaporkan, maka ada sistem ia diperiksa dahulu untuk menentukan fakta atau sebagainya.“Ia akan mengambil sedikit masa, apabila siap dan sedia, kita boleh membuat pengumuman dalam sidang media untuk beritahu apakah hala tuju kita, kalau perlu kita bawa RUU dibentang dalam Parlimen tetapi berikan kita sedikit masa,” katanya selepas menyampaikan ucapan di Majlis Suruhanjaya Hak Asasi Malaysia (Suhakam) bersama media hari ini.
Turut hadir Pengerusi Suhakam Tan Sri Razali Ismail dan Penasihat Media dan Komunikasi Pejabat Perdana Menteri, Datuk A Kadir Jasin.Terdahulu dalam ucapannya, Gobind menegaskan mengenai sebab perundangan dan langkah-langkah penting lain seperti pengukuhan profesionalisme media, kewartawanan beretika dan untuk mewujudkan mekanisme dan rangka kerja kawal selia kendiri penting untuk memerangi berita palsu dan menangani salah guna media sosial.Beliau berkata ini bukan hanya menggalakkan kewartawanan yang lebih matang dan bertanggungjawab tetapi juga meningkatkan akauntabiliti serta semak dan imbang yang baik dalam kalangan pengamal media dan laporan mereka.Menurutnya, beberapa negara seperti United Kingdom, Pakistan dan Singapura juga mengambil pendekatan yang sama untuk mengawal selia atau mengawal media sosial di seluruh dunia.Gobind berharap kementerian dan semua pihak yang berkaitan dapat bekerjasama untuk mencapai satu sistem di mana kebebasan akhbar dapat dikekalkan serta dapat memastikan kewartawanan yang bertanggungjawab dalam mencari keseimbangan yang diperlukan untuk tadbir urus, media dan hak asasi manusia di Malaysia.
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FOMCA fully supports the National Community Policy as a means to strengthen the rights and responsibilities of consumers at the community level.One of the eight universal consumer rights is the right to be heard, that is for consumers to voice their concerns and for government to take full cognizance of their concerns.While we often focus on the basic needs of food, housing, transport, healthcare and other cost of living issues, the role of consumers in a democracy should not be neglected. Consumers not only have a right to voice their concerns, the government has a responsibility to listen and respond positively to these concerns too.
In some communities, there are well-organised Rukun Tetangga groups or resident associations that function as the voice of the consumer/resident. For those that lack these organisations, the Community Policy would enable the establishment of mechanisms and structures in every area to speak up for them.Vandalism, destruction of public property such as lifts and playground amenities, unhealthy environment that enables the breeding of the Aedes mosquito, haphazard parking, and irresponsible dumping of rubbish continue to occur. This selfish and destructive behaviour of a few individuals leave negative effects on the community as a whole. The Community Policy would make consumers and residents aware of their responsibilities through education programmes.
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KOTA TINGGI: Local workers need to toughen up and be less sensitive to survive and thrive in the local job market, said Johor Consumerism Human Resources and Unity Committee chairman Dr S. Ramakrishnan.He said he has received reports from employers complaining that local workers are too soft and unable to handle pressure, with many quitting their jobs despite earning good salaries.“Some of them even resigned due to petty issues such as working late hours or seeing their colleagues getting a pay raise or being passed over for promotions,” he added.Dr Ramakrishnan was speaking to reporters after conducting a working visit to Desaru Coast Malaysia here.
He said the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Industrial Training Institute (ILP) should beef up the personality and mentality of local workers to make them better able to meet the demands of industry.Dr Ramakrishnan said he had met up with the TVET and ILP institutions and urged them to make changes in their programmes to produce a better quality workforce.“I have told them not to focus solely on developing skills but also develop the students’ personality and mentality to face any possible situations in the working environment.“This issue is huge and these skills should be imbued in our future workers even at their secondary educational stage,” he said.
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Hari tanpa beg plastik telah dilancarkan di negeri Selangor sejak 2hb Januari 2010. Sejak ia berlangsung, kita terdengar yang positif, mahupun yang negatif.
Walaubagaimanapun, mereka yang berada di kawasan pendalaman yang sebenarnya memerlukan lebih perhatian telah dipinggirkan oleh kita. Mereka yang tidak mengetahui konsep hari tanpa beg plastik ini merasakan hari tanpa beg plastik menjadi beban dalam kehidupan harian.
Kempen hari tanpa beg plastik sepatutnya dilaksanakan di seluruh negara, bukan setakat di peringkat negeri. Jika tidak, orang ramai akan keliru tentang kempen ini dan akhirnya tidak membawa manfaat kepada bumi kita, kerana mereka yang tidak ketahui akan terus menggunakan beg plastik tanpa had.
Adakah kita memahami konsep tentang kempen hari tanpa beg plastik?
Adakah kita hanya tidak gunakan plastik pada hari tersebut tetapi tetap mengamalkan praktis yang tidak lestari?
Sebagai contoh, seorang pengurus memberitahu anak buahnya, jika mereka mengamalkan hari kempen tanpa beg plastik, sudah pasti tiada orang akan membeli-belah kerana beg plastik yang dicaj dua puluh sen itu.
Selain daripada itu, tempat membeli-belah yang menyediakan tong kitar semula tidak digunapakai, tong kitar semula ini tidak diletak barangan boleh kitar semula, tetapi dipenuhi dengan macam-macam sampah sarap.
Dengan mengurangkan penggunaan plastik, bukan sahaja menolong menentang kesan perubahan iklim, tetapi menyumbangkan kepada kesihatan pengguna.
Walaupun tiada kajian jangka masa panjang yang menunjukkan kebahayaan plastik dan bahan yang dibuat daripada plastik, tetapi kita perlu memahami bahawa plastik adalah dibuat oleh bahan kimia, dan tiada sesiapa yang akan menjamin unsur bahan kimia ini tidak akan meresap keluar, dan ini mungkin satu punca bagi penyakit kronik yang tidak diketahui.
Hari tanpa beg plastik sewajarnya tidak terhad pada tanpa plastik sahaja, tetapi melanjutkannya kepada aspek-aspek yang lain, seperti tidak menggunkan Styrofoam atau polystyrene yang merupakan bahan-bahan yang hanya boleh diguna sekali sahaja.
Tambahan pula, konsep 3R (reuse, reduce, recycle), guna semula, kurangkan dan kitar semula merupakan contoh yang perlu kita amalkan setiap hari, dan bukan sekadar untuk plastik sahaja. Ia perlu merangkumi bahan-bahan dalam kehidupan seharian.
Kerajaan memainkan peranan yang penting dalam promosi kempen hari tanpa beg plastik, dan perlu menegaskan kepada komuniti yang sentiasa dipinggirkan.
Sam Wong Chin Kah
Persatuan Pengguna-Pengguna Standard Malaysia
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