8 November 2022 World Sugar Tax Could Boost Both Health And Economy Taxes on sugary drinks can often improve a nation’s economy, rather than having the devastating impact industry has claimed.
26 September 2022 World Why Are Sugary Drinks Still Sold In Schools? Soft-drink manufacturers are targeting Africa, but industry-led pledges to reduce the sale of sugary drinks subvert better government-led policy options.
12 June 2020 Malaysia One In Five Malaysians Don’t Enjoy Good Health: NHMS Only six out of 10 Malaysians seek professional care after falling sick.
29 January 2020 Letter Free Breakfast Programme: Was The Sugar Tax A Failure? — Vinodh Pillai Revenue from the sugary drinks tax was supposed to fund the free school breakfast programme.
19 December 2019 Malaysia MOH Wanted Higher Sugary Drinks Tax, Officer Says The public health physician also called for higher tobacco and alcohol taxes.
10 October 2019 World Singapore Banning Sugary Drinks Ads The move is to curb the country’s high consumption rate of sugar.
22 July 2019 Malaysia Bubble Tea Is Twice As Sweet As Cola Brown sugar milk tea with pearls has 18.5 teaspoons of sugar.
11 July 2019 World Study: Sugary Drinks Linked With Cancer An increase of consuming 100ml of sugary drinks was associated with an 18% increase in the risk of cancer.