Elak guna kerusi keselamatan kanak-kanak terpakai, kata NGO
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PETALING JAYA: Konsultan keselamatan penumpang kanak-kanak menasihati ibu bapa tidak membeli kerusi keselamatan kanak-kanak (CRS) terpakai meskipun ia dijual lebih murah.May Hwong dari Childline Foundation berkata setiap CRS dikeluarkan hanya boleh digunakan sehingga lapan tahun daripada tarikh pembuatan.“Saya tahu ada ibu bapa yang mengadu tak mampu untuk membeli CRS ini tapi mungkin boleh dijadikan keperluan asas sebelum lahirkan anak atau menabung.“Sebenarnya banyak CRS yang mengikut piawaian di pasaran tapi harganya mampu milik. Murah tak semestinya tak bagus, saya memang tak galakkan membeli CRS terpakai sebab kita tak tahu sejarahnya sama ada pernah terlibat kemalangan, ada bahagian yang hilang dan sebagainya.
“Kebanyakan CRS hanya boleh digunakan untuk enam hingga lapan tahun bermula daripada tarikh pembuatan kerana kesan cahaya UV boleh mengurangkan ketahanannya,” katanya kepada FMT.Bulan lalu, kerajaan dilaporkan akan mewajibkan penggunaan CRS dalam kenderaan mulai 1 Januari, bagi mengelakkan daripada kecederaan serius atau kematian sekiranya berlaku kemalangan.Mengulas lanjut, May berkata mana-mana CRS yang terlibat dalam kemalangan tidak boleh digunakan lagi dan perlu dilupuskan segera.Katanya lagi, mengikut statistik dikeluarkan Institut Penyelidikan Keselamatan Jalan Raya Malaysia (Miros), daripada 2007 hingga 2017, seramai 1,559 kanak-kanak bawah 10 tahun maut akibat kemalangan jalan raya.
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STAR : Monitor electricity usage in rental properties via mobile app
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LANDLORDS can check if their tenants are paying the electricity bill on time via the myTNB app or portal.Responding to StarMetro’s article “Change name in TNB account so tenants will be liable for bills” on Oct 21, national utility giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd said landlords who fear being saddled with massive unpaid bills by errant tenants had several options.Besides changing the name on the TNB account for the rental properties, landlords who did not want to do so had the option of using the myTNB app or portal to scrutinise the bills and payment records, it said in a statement.
“In the event the overdue amount for a particular account has surpassed the security deposit that the landlord has collected from the tenant, the landlord can request for disconnection of electricity supply by contacting TNB CareLine at 1-300-88-5454, ” it said.The article highlighted cases where landlords were left owing a huge sum of money to TNB because of their tenants, who had run off or disappeared without paying the electricity bills, which in some cases ran up to several hundred thousand ringgit. The landlords were reminded to change the name in the TNB account of their rental properties, so that the tenants will be responsible for the charges owing.
By S. BASKARAN - November 11, 2019 @ 12:04am,Senior manager, National Consumer Complaints Centre
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In reality, consumers are duped into signing up for the timesharing packages without understanding the terms and conditions.Consumers must ensure their full details are recorded in a form.They must also read the fine print in an agreement before they accept an offer.Those who have doubts are entitled to terminate the agreement within the cooling-off period of 10 days.Unfortunately, the agreement usually takes a month to reach consumers via mail.The right procedure is for the companies to send the proposal via email and give the consumers time to read and understand the terms and conditions before accepting the offer.One consumer complained that he was not informed that he could use the holiday package only every alternate year.
FOMCA : TOUCH N GO
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Pandangan En Mohd Yusof Abdul Rahman (Naib Presiden FOMCA) atas keputusan Touch n Go untuk menutup perkhidmatan tambah nilai di semua lorong keluar plaza tol lebuh raya.
STAR ONLINE: Cross-subsidisation costing the rakyat,Datuk Alan Tong
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HOW much does it cost a fresh graduate to own a car in Australia and in Malaysia?On an average income of A$55,000 per year (RM155,375), a fresh graduate in Australia can easily buy a Honda Civic worth A$25,000 (RM70,625) with half a year of his salary.When I first started to work as an assistant architect in the Kuala Lumpur Municipal Architect Department in the 1960s, earning RM628 per month, I was able to buy my first car, a Peugeot 404 which cost RM7,724 with one year of my salary. It was a big car, way too big for a fresh graduate! So it became my reliable companion for 14 years.Those were the good old days in Malaysia when a car could be bought with just one year’s salary of a fresh graduate.
Today, our fresh graduates earn an average of RM30,000 per year (RM2,500 per month). It would cost them four years’ salary to purchase a Honda Civic of around RM120,000. Myvi, our local car, would still cost them around two years’ salary.For our graduates, the cost of purchasing a car today is without a doubt much higher than their counterparts in Australia. Imagine if the selling prices of our medium and higher-range cars were to be increased in order to subsidise the lower-range cars, how would this impact the overall costs of cars in our country?You may find this idea ridiculous. Yet this is exactly what is happening in our housing industry.All private housing developers are required to pay compliance cost including statutory contributions (contribution to build roads, drainage, electricity, water, and sewerage system, etc), processing fee, land matters and others.
On top of that, other hidden compliance costs such as the low-cost housing quota and surrender of land for utilities are absorbed by housing developers.Since 1982, private developers have been required to allocate a 30% quota for low-cost housing when they develop new projects. The controlled selling prices of these houses ranged from RM25,000 to RM42,000.Based on a study “The Impact of Capital Contributions and Compliance Costs on Housing Affordability” by Dr Foo Chee Hung of MKH Bhd,compliance costs made up the bulk of the development cost. They ranged from 2.8% to 19.9% of the gross development value (GDV) of a condominium development; and 9.5% to 35.1% for a terrace house development.
Read more: STAR ONLINE: Cross-subsidisation costing the rakyat,Datuk Alan Tong
NST : Better waste disposal via National Cleanliness Policy
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KUALA LUMPUR: The implementation of the National Cleanliness Policy would include a roadmap for an improved and more organised waste management system to create greater awareness on the matter.Housing and Local Government Minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said the initiative would be launched tomorrow by Melaka Chief Minister Adly Zahari at the Tehel People’s Housing Programme for the Hardcore Poor (PPRT) to promote cleanliness.
“It is time for us to create a guideline with a target to manage the nation’s waste from the local authorities, scrap metal and construction industries, and botanical waste and e-waste.“We will be setting a guideline under the policy to ensure thorough and conducive management of waste,” she told the media during an exclusive interview in Parliament on Tuesday.She said the policy would focus on 196 PPRT nationwide to inculcate cleanliness, with community service being proposed for those caught littering.“We must educate the people so that they will make it a habit to throw their garbage properly. We need to put a stop to littering by naming and shaming those who do it.”As for the community service punishment, she said it was required as part of the education awareness initiative.“If we impose a fine, people can just pay and get over the fact that they have broken the law.”
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LOANSTREET: Tuntutan insurans kereta, Pandangan FOMCA
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Boleh anda membuat tuntutan insurans sekiranya kereta anda yang di pakir dilanggar dan pemandunya melarikan diri?
Bayangkan anda memakir kereta di tempat letak kereta berbayar untuk membeli belah atau urusan lain. Setelah selesai urusan anda, anda bergegas balik ke kereta anda untuk pulang ke rumah atau beredar ke tempat lain. Bila anda sampai di tempat letak kereta, anda dapati kereta anda kemek di bahagian hadapan. Tindakan pertama adalah melihat kiri kanan untuk melihat sekiranya ada kereta yang turut kemek atau ada bekas kena langgar.
Sebelum anda memaki hamun pesalah tersebut, lihat di cermin kereta sekiranya orang yang melanggar kereta anda meninggalkan nombor telefonnya di atas kereta anda kerana tidak dapat menunggu di situ kerana ada urusan yang lebih penting yang perlu dihadiri. Sekiranya ada nombor telefon, cuba hubungi orang tersebut dan mungkin anda boleh selesaikan tanpa melibatkan pihak polis.
Memang sungguh menyakitkan hati sekiranya kereta kita dilanggar oleh orang lain, apa lagi anda tidak mengetahui siapa yang melakukannya. Malang tidak berbau dan kemalangan boleh berlaku di mana-mana. Ada perlu bertanggungjawab ke atas kejadian tersebut walaupun ianya dilakukan oleh orang lain. Di mana anda perlu mula? Bagaimanakah anda membuat tuntutan insurans kereta untuk kemalangan bukan berpunca dari kesalahan anda? Ada 5 langkah yang harus dipatuhi.
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JOHOR BAHRU : ENERGY CONFERENCE 2019
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Johor Bahru: Efforts to reduce fossil fuel usage by 20% and green houses gasses by 45% has got the government looking to the sun for clean, green and renewable energy solutions. Energy Conservation towards a new era.
VVIP: En Wong Ting Song (Setiausaha Bahagian Kecekapan Tenaga MESTECC), Tuan Haji Meraj (Presiden Persatuan Kebajikan Johor), Tenaga Nasional Berhad representatives and Dato Paul Selvaraj (CEO FOMCA).
THE STAR : Mixed views over medicine prices, CEO FOMCA
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KUALA LUMPUR: Fomca welcomed the move by the government to drop the sole concessionaire system for the distribution of drugs and medical supplies to the Health Ministry’s facilities.While it said consumers are expected to get cheaper supplies with the dismantling of the distribution monopoly held by Pharmaniaga, an international research and advocacy organisation said the prices are not likely to go down as Pharmaniaga does not determine the prices of the supplies.
Instead, an open tender system will be introduced, he said.Paul said the government should monitor the prices of medicines as they were quite high in Malaysia.“Whether encouraging the manufacturing of generics or greater competition or price controls, medicine has to be made accessible and affordable to people.“Big pharmaceutical companies are pushing back on these but the government should put the health of the people over the profits of pharmaceutical companies, ” he said.
Read more: THE STAR : Mixed views over medicine prices, CEO FOMCA
Pandangan Timbalan Presiden FOMCA, En Mohd Yusof bin Abd Rahman
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FOMCA: Tindakan tegas untuk syarikat yang mengulangi kesalahan mengeluarkan produk kosmetik mengandungi racun berjadual.
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