THE Consumers Association of Penang is appealing to the state government to recognise the potential side effects of mobile phone usage on young children.
It urged the state government to issue a warning to parents to stop children under the age of 12 from using mobile phones as well as run campaigns to warn the public of the possible dangers of radiation exposure.
CAP president S.M. Mohamed Idris claimed that new research from Sweden had found that younger people were five times more likely to develop brain cancer if they were mobile phone users.
“Children are especially vulnerable to radiation from mobile and cordless phone, Wi-Fi and other electromagnetic signal devices.
“It is because their brain and nervous systems are still developing and since their heads are smaller and their skull thinner, the radiation penetrates deeper into the brain,” he told a press conference in George Town yesterday.
WHILE the world is reeling from what is possibly the worst global economic crisis since The Great Depression, most Malaysians have been too preoccupied with its own political drama to pay much attention to the financial meltdown.
Everyone is busy talking about politics. The opposition taking over, the opposition not taking over; the PM stepping down, the PM not stepping down; who will become the new PM’s deputy, who will not; is Anwar guilty of sodomy, is he innocent.
Based on the newspaper headlines, many seem to think that it only affects the US, Europe, and other countries in the region. Malaysians tend to think that based on strong commodities and crude oil prices that Petronas is selling, we are somehow insulated from what is happening elsewhere.
Party insiders tell Malaysiakini plans are afoot to expand the number of vice-presidencies in Umno from three to five to reflect the party’s rapidly growing member base, which has shot up to about 3.4 million from just under 2 million in 1989.
191 division heads aka warlords, and very soon there will be 189 positions for the VP post.
“I am not afraid of the Chinese being smart, because I too am smart. We keep talking about the Chinese having more shops and how we should be worried. The fact is we should not be worried. We should think of how to catch up.”
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 - Malaysians are increasingly worried about their economy in the light of the global financial crisis and continuing political turmoil on the domestic front.
More than half of the respondents to a survey just conducted by the independent Merdeka Centre said they were worried about the prospects for the economy, a sharp jump from the 25 per cent recorded a year ago.
Fifty per cent of the 1,002 respondents said economic issues, such as price hikes, inflation and unemployment, were most important to them. Twenty-one per cent cited political issues as most important, up from one per cent when another survey was conducted in March.
Parti Keadilan Rakyat has backed the Perak state government’s decision to sack Perak Tengah district councillor Zul Hassan from his post, party president Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Ismail said today.
Monday morning humour, courtesy of Sakmongkol AK47. Badawi & Najib in action, behind the scenes.
“I think I speak for the country when I say we are embarrassed at the sight of two grown men playing this endless children’s game of ‘yours and mine’ with the most important responsibility in the land, oblivious of the law, oblivious to the damage they are doing to the nation.”
