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GST should be postponed, says Sabah activist

By Ezra Haganez
KOTA KINABALU: The Federal Government should consider calls to postpone the implemention of Goods and Service Tax (GST) this April, as more than half of  eligible businesses in Sabah appeared not yet ready for it.

A consumer activist who is also a trader, Donny Yapp, in a statement today said many businesses especially in Sabah have yet to register with the Royal Custom Department and that many more have not acquired or installed GST-compliance accounting software.

CAPS supports SHAREDA's call on MyHome Scheme

BY Ezra Haganez
KOTA KINABALU :  In conjunction with World Habitat Day yesterday, the Consumer affairs and Protection Society of Sabah (CAPS) has called on both the Federal and State Governments to pave for more affordable houses be built for locals, including the younger generation.

CAPS spokesman, Donny Yapp, in a statement said ways and means must be found to have more low-cost housing be developed instead of medium and high cost houses as the trend had been.

Police escorts a danger to motorists

Why must a VIP get right of way at the expense
of law abiding rakyat who are oftentimes
rough-housed to the side of road? asks an activist
By Luke Rintod of FMT
KOTA KINABALU: Police, especially traffic police, escorting VIPs on Sabah roads are being accused of endangering other road users when conducting their duties. A social activist said he recently almost met with an accident when overzealous police escorts forced him to the verge of the road to give way to a VIP speeding towards him
Donny Yapp, a director of UK-based NGO, Borneo Rights International (BRI), said the policemen simply “bulldozed” their way through the traffic and confused other motorists on a highway by waving their hands and pointing their fingers at them to get off the road.
Yapp said he was shocked earlier this week when a police outrider suddenly appeared alongside his vehicle frantically waving and pointing to one side of the road and the divider.

CAPS sokong kenyataan Wong Khen Thau hal kabotaj

KOTA KINABALU : CAPS menyokong penuh saranan Presiden Persatuan Pengilang-Pengilang Sabah (FSM) supaya kerajaan Persekutuan lebih serius dalam mengepalai liberalisasi penuh dasar kabotaj dalam menangani kos tinggi barangan di Malaysia Timur.

Pendedahan Datuk Wong Khen Thau mengenai mesyuarat di Kuching berkenaan kabotaj yang mana kenyataan para pegawai Kementerian Pengangkutan Persekutuan menunjukkan sama ada pusat tidak serius atau mereka di bawah kawalan para pemonopoli perkapalan.

Foreign traders in Sabah flouting law

KOTA KINABALU: The Consumer Affairs and Protection Association of Sabah (CAPS) wants the Sabah state government to explain how a burgeoning number of newly-arrived Pakistanis have been allowed to literally set up shop around the state.

CAPS’ deputy treasurer, Donny Yapp, said it was now quite easy to find Pakistani shopkeepers all around the city and its immediate outskirts.

He said CAPS had since last year been receiving reports and complaints both from consumers and local retailers that more and more foreigners, especially Pakistanis, had been given a free-hand to run groceries in many places that local retailers would normally have problem setting up business.


Persatuan Pengguna bangkit isu rakyat Pakistan bina kedai runcit merata tempat di Sabah

By Donny Yapp of CAPS
KOTA KINABALU : Sejak tahun lalu, CAPS telah menerima banyak aduan dan laporan dari kedua-dua golongan pengguna dan pekedai runcit tempatan berhubung semakin banyaknya kedai runcit yang dibina dan dan dioperasi oleh rakyat asing terutama Pakistan.

Kedai-kedai runcit Pakistan ini dikatakan tumbuh agai cendawan selepas hujan, dibina di merata tempat dan selekoh, di tempat-tempat yang biasanya rakyat tempatan tidak dibenarkan membuatnya ataupun pasti akan mengalami gangguan pihak berkuasa tempatan.

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