{"id":5854,"date":"2009-10-20T17:40:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T09:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=5854"},"modified":"2009-10-20T17:40:04","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T09:40:04","slug":"samsu-report-on-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2009\/10\/20\/samsu-report-on-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsu Report on Al-Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got this from Saravanan’s FB entry.<\/p>\n

Few interesting facts:<\/p>\n

1. Samsu (rice wine) can have up to 50% alcohol content.<\/p>\n

2. According to CAP’s Subbarow, the government banned sales of samsu in plastics about 20 years ago because it was becoming a social problem among the Malay youths.<\/p>\n

3. MIC’s new Information Chief, P Kamalanathan says taxes on the samsu should be raised, similar to cigarettes, wine, beer etc.<\/p>\n

4. The guy interviewed in the report says he won’t stop drinking until death. (Even pawned wife’s jewelery to buy liquor).<\/p>\n

5. The reason given be the interviewee is that he drinks to forget his sorrows.<\/p>\n

6. CAP estimates rural Indians spend US6 million (RM21 million) annually on alcohol.<\/p>\n

7. In this example, drinking samsu leads to domestic violence, runaway children, disease and early death.<\/p>\n

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Got this from Saravanan’s FB entry. Few interesting facts: 1. Samsu (rice wine) can have up to 50% alcohol content. 2. According to CAP’s Subbarow, the government banned sales of samsu in plastics about 20 years ago because it was becoming a social problem among the Malay youths. 3. MIC’s new Information Chief, P Kamalanathan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[117,112,158,24,278,154,104],"class_list":["post-5854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-crime","tag-discrimination","tag-media","tag-mic","tag-ngo","tag-poverty","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5854\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}