2009/04/01

Shafie Shamsuddin says its stores stock the 15 per cent broken rice variety

PETALING JAYA: A hypermarket denied selling chicken without adhering to specifications.

It also denied that it did not stock the 15 per cent broken rice variety.

Carrefour managing director for Malaysia and Singapore Shafie Shamsuddin claimed its stores were amply stocked with the 15 per cent broken rice variety.

2009/03/30

By : Jennifer Gomez
PETALING JAYA: Even hypermarkets cannot hold prices down with tags on essential items on the uptrend over the past seven months.

This was revealed in a survey of 37 essential goods at three major hypermarket chains.

The survey by the Consumer Research and Resource Centre (CRRC) over a six-month period from last September recorded the average pricing of selected items in three hypermarket chains.

Items surveyed included chicken, beef, fish such as tenggiri, kembung and cencaru; vegetables such as tomatoes, sawi, kankung and French beans; as well as ginger, shallots, potatoes, eggs, wheat flour, coffee powder, creamer, sardines and rice.

By Barbara Kiviat Sunday, Mar. 29, 2009

I'm going to walk two miles to work on Friday. I blame the recession.

Like people everywhere, I've been hit by fear. Fear that I'll lose my job. Fear that I won't be able to make my rent. Fear that my mother, who retires in June, will outlive her battered portfolio and need me to step in to help out.

By Bryan Walsh Monday, Mar. 23, 2009

It's been two years since the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out the definitive case that human beings were causing global warming, and two decades since NASA scientist James Hansen first told Congress of the threat of rising CO2 emissions. So, why has it taken this long for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to announce that greenhouse gases endanger human health? Change can be slow in Washington.

Friday March 20, 2009

BUKIT GANTANG: Dengue cases and deaths increased significantly in the first three months of the year compared with the same period last year due to the rainy spell.

Thirty-three people out of 12,179 cases have died from Jan 1 to March 16. There were 8,212 cases with 14 deaths in the period last year.