30-3-2010 

The Customs & Excise Department has banned the sale of a type of baby pacifier which contained excessive N-nitrosomorpholine - a substance which is possibly cancer-causing in humans.

Customs officers recently conducted spot checks on children's products and found the pacifiers unsafe. They also failed to meet a warning requirement on their packaging.

A total of 43 baby pacifiers have so far been seized from a supplier and its four retail outlets. The supplier will also conduct a voluntary recall of the products. Investigations are underway
 

Source: http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/healthandcommunity/100330/html/100330en05011.htm

Tuesday March 30 2010

NEW YORK, March 30 — American children aren’t the only couch potatoes with nearly one third of children globally spending three hours a day or more watching TV or on computers, according to study of over 70,000 teens in 34 nations.

From Argentina to Zambia, Regina Guthold of the World Health Organisation in Geneva and her colleagues found most children aren’t getting enough exercise and it made no difference if they lived in a rich or a poor country.

Posted by Brad Tuttle Monday, March 29, 2010 at 12:02 pm

For a generation of adults accustomed to credit card debt and negative checking account balances, teaching kids about savings is a matter of do as I say, not as I've done.

Everyone knows that kids learn by example. Dr. Ted and Brad Klontz, in their new book Mind Over Money, describe the concept of "financial flashpoints": key moments in early life that have shape one's relationship with money forever. So, like it or not, your kids learn from watching you—how and what you buy, how you save, or how you don't save.

Submitted by Pawan Shukla on 2010, March 28 - 11:07

The Royal College of Physicians is backing its call for an absolute ban on smoking in cars by claiming that inhaling second smoke in cars causes 22,000 cases of asthma in children yearly.

This is reminiscent of a claim made a few years ago that passive smoking could be the reason for increasing incidences of cot deaths. However, the loop hole in this theory was that between the years 1970 and 1988, when cot deaths shot up by 500%, there was a decline in the number of smokers from 45 to 30%.

Tuesday March 30, 2010

By WANI MUTHIAH

KLANG: Motorists injured in road accidents may find themselves in limbo due to lack of compensation when the new basic third party motor insurance coverage scheme for bodily injury and death is introduced on July 1.

Under the “no-fault” third party scheme, aggrieved parties cannot claim damages from insurance companies.