Press conference in Q4 of 2026: the launch of the MOVE website and the publication of our commissioned research. Media only. Event details
Press conference in Q4 of 2026: the launch of the MOVE website and the publication of our commissioned research. Media only. Event details
Media
Everything we hold on where MOVE has been quoted, interviewed or written about, and everything MOVE has made itself. Dated, linked and free for journalists to lift. Where a source is behind a paywall or offline we say so rather than leaving a dead link.
The earliest broadcast in our record, from two weeks before our own archive begins and seven weeks after MOVE's launch. Our founder argued the consumer case for Malaysian vapers on live national television.
Our founder recalls an audience of around three million. That is a recollection of a live broadcast eleven years ago, not a measured figure, and we describe it that way everywhere it appears.
Dialog Tiga Penjuru is a recurring panel discussion programme on Astro AWANI. The episode "Generasi Penamat Rokok" went out during the public debate over the generational end game proposal, with MOVE beside Dr Wong Chee Kuan, a respiratory physician at Universiti Malaya Medical Centre, and Prof Madya Dr Norashidah Mohamed Nor of Universiti Putra Malaysia. The same year MOVE filed its memorandum of objection at Parliament.
The recording runs 55 minutes and 56 seconds and is on Astro AWANI's own video archive, dated 30 June 2022. We hold the panel composition from our own archive.
A long-form interview in which the interviewer put the central contradiction directly: products registered with the regulator, fees charged, duty levied, and a ban discussed in the same period. The written companion piece is here.
A short clip of our founder arguing that consolidation in the Malaysian market is a sign of a maturing regulated sector rather than a collapsing one.
TV Alhijrah is free to air and is also carried on Astro. The episode took the excise duty on vape liquid as its subject. MOVE appeared beside Prof Madya Dr Nur Amani Ahmad Tajuddin, a family medicine specialist at Universiti Malaya, and Dr Wency Bui Kher Thinng, a senior lecturer at Universiti Putra Malaysia.
We hold the broadcaster's programme card, not a recording.
A live news segment during TV3's coverage of Budget 2021, in which MOVE's president put the case for regulating vape rather than banning it. The on-screen strap read "Samsul Kamal Ariffin, Presiden MOVE".
We hold a phone recording of the broadcast. TV3 owns it, so it is not reproduced here.
Our current position on the overlap between the Poisons Act 1952 and Act 852, carried in full. Our founder is quoted saying that prohibition does not automatically remove demand, it removes the regulated channel, and that a regulated market gives the authorities clear standards to enforce. MOVE said it was ready to engage with the Government and the relevant authorities.
Our founder on unregulated selling through private channels and social media, and on the unfair competition legitimate retailers face. MOVE asked the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission to take down unauthorised selling websites. He is quoted saying these practices undermine conscious efforts taken by the industry to comply with existing regulations. A companion piece ran the same day.
Our clearest single public statement. Covers the case for regulation over prohibition, our concern about liquids laced with tetrahydrocannabinol, the black market warning, and a critique of state-level bans. The 402 synthetic-drug vape cases recorded to April 2026 and the 76 National Poison Centre poisoning cases from 2020 to 2024 are not in this article and are sourced separately on our numbers page.
A note for readers checking the source: this article dates Kelantan's restriction to 2015. Our own record, sourced to Bernama on 18 June 2025, is that Kelantan has refused to issue vape retail licences since 2013.
The same argument carried in national media the day after The Vibes interview. Reports MOVE's call for regulation of manufacturing, sales and usage, and carries our founder citing Public Health England's 2015 estimate that vaping is around 95 per cent less harmful than smoking. The three-point formulation, separating vape from narcotics, controlling access to protect young people, and recognising vaping as a cessation route, comes from our founder's remarks to Utusan Malaysia on 9 September 2025.
The contradiction argument at length: registration through the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency, registration fees, excise duty, and a ban under discussion in the same period. Contains most of the quotations that get lifted from us.
Our response to the proposal to raise excise from 40 sen to RM4 per ml. The article records the current rate at 40 sen, the Ministry of Health proposal at RM4, and a preliminary Ministry of Finance figure of 80 sen. The full tax record is here.
The contents argument rather than the access argument: what goes into a bottle is the thing regulation can actually control, and prohibition gives that control up. Our founder is quoted saying the ban on vaping while cigarettes are freely sold is a sign of a large gap in the country's public health policy.
A longer-form statement of the MOVE position in our own framing rather than filtered through a news interview. The published headline ends "regulate not ban vape – MOVE", and the piece attributes the 95 per cent estimate to Public Health England, 2015.
A commentary piece by Cheah Chor Sooi arguing the proportionality case, quoting our founder throughout. It is the second earliest press item we hold. It carries 2020 industry figures attributed to the sector, which we do not adopt as our own.
Coverage of a claim about pharmaceutical interests in the ban debate.
This is reported as an advocate's claim and it is not one MOVE evidences on this website. We list the coverage because the register is a record of what was published, not a selection of what we would say today. Our case rests on the evidence library, and we do not argue it from motive.
Business-press treatment of the sector's position as the ban debate began. The piece puts the Malaysian vaping industry at an estimated RM2 billion, then believed to be second in size only to the United States, and quotes MOVE. Useful for the economic side of the argument.
The earliest press appearance in our records, published while vape retailers were responding to a nationwide raid, and from MOVE's first weeks. The report describes industry players asking the authorities for guidance.
The original is online but only the opening paragraph is free to read, and that portion does not name MOVE. SEATCA's profile of MOVE records our founder in this article as having objected to vape being taxed like tobacco, and cites it as Ghazali R., The Star, 7 November 2015. SEATCA is a source that opposes us. An archived copy preserves the full text, which confirms the quoted remarks. A Malay report of the same day is free to read in mStar.
Most Malaysians who follow this issue follow it in Malay. Our Malay-language register is thinner than our English one and we are still adding to it.
A full-page feature in Mingguan Malaysia, the Sunday edition of Utusan Malaysia, run under the kicker "Mukadimah" and carrying parallel interviews with the Director-General of Health, Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah, and MOVE's founder. Our copy carries no printed issue date. The Director-General refers to "Kabinet pada 30 Oktober lepas", the Cabinet decision of 30 October 2015 not to ban vape, which places the page somewhere between November 2015 and early 2016. In it our founder said MOVE had recently handed a petition of about 50,000 signatures to Pemuda UMNO.
Not online. We hold a scan of the printed page, reproduced here for the record. Copyright rests with the publisher.
Our call, in Malay, for the Government and the Ministry of Health to resolve the overlap between Act 852 and the Poisons Act 1952, and to regulate rather than prohibit, with product safety standards, traceability and age controls.
Reported by Mohamad Athir bin Ismail. This is where our three-point formulation comes from: separate vape from narcotics, control access to protect young people, and recognise vaping as a cessation route.
The Malay edition of the podcast listed under broadcast above.
Our note on the English version applies here too: this is reported as an advocate's claim and it is not one MOVE evidences on this website.
The Malay report in the same Scoop series, arguing that firm action under the rules already in force was overdue.
The regulate-rather-than-ban call, reported in Malay.
The regulate-under-Act-852 case, made in Malay to a Malay-language business readership. Reported by Mohd Faizal Zakaria.
Local enforcement reporting on compounds issued under Act 852, including for signage duties. Reported by Ridhwan Rusydi Azri Roslan, covering RM8,250 in compounds since 1 October 2024, 352 premises inspected in Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, and 33 notices issued under section 47. Useful for retailers who want to know what enforcement looks like in practice.
Our founder on the Budget 2021 proposal of 10 per cent on devices and 40 sen per ml on e-liquid.
The Malay report of the same day as The Star item in our Malaysian press list, and free to read in full.
Quoted at second hand in The Vibes, 4 June 2025, as the origin of MOVE's most-repeated evidence line in Malay-language press.
We hold the reference through another outlet, not the original article. Listed so the trail is visible, not as a citable source.
Largely specialist vaping and tobacco trade media, which follow Malaysia closely. Their readership is in this sector, which is worth knowing before you cite them.
The fullest third-party overview of the Malaysian position, citing MOVE alongside the Malaysian Vape Chamber of Commerce (MVCC) and the Malaysia Retail Electronic Cigarette Association (MRECA) and setting it against bans in Singapore, India and Australia. It is also the source most often used for the industry economic figures.
A drug-policy magazine's treatment, framing the Malaysian debate in harm reduction terms rather than tobacco control terms. Written by Kiran Sidhu, and the source of our founder's line that Singapore's ban re-routed demand to the black market rather than removing it.
Trade coverage of a warning about a hasty ban on 15 ml products. The warning was made by Mohamad Nizam Talib, president of the Malaysian E-Vaporisers and Tobacco Alternatives Association, not by MOVE. We list it as sector coverage because the revenue figure is cited on our numbers page. The same warning was reported domestically as RM600 million. One figure, two currencies.
Reports the Finance Minister saying that any government decision on vape tax would follow the Court of Appeal's eventual decision. That condition has since fallen away, because the Government discontinued its appeal on 18 August 2026 and the position has not been restated. Our tax page carries the current record.
Direct coverage of MOVE's position for an international readership. The same outlet also publishes an Act 852 guide, which is a trade summary rather than a legal source. Ours is here.
The tax argument set in an international context, published as Malaysia was weighing the 900% proposal.
Regional general-interest coverage. It carries the estimate of 1.4 million Malaysian adult vapers, but does not attribute that estimate to a named source, so we treat it as a figure in circulation rather than a primary one. MOVE is not quoted in the article.
A decade of material MOVE made itself. Most of it lives in our Facebook archive and is being recovered. We list it here so the record exists even before the files do.
Video series, 2022 onward
MOVE's own talk and video series, running to multiple episodes, including panel discussions and an episode asking who counts as an expert in this argument. Episodes go up here as they are recovered and cleared.
Series, bilingual
"Menerokai Yang Tidak Diujar", exploring the unspoken. A recurring MOVE title in both languages, referenced repeatedly across the archive.
Livestreams, 2022
Livestreams broadcast for World Vape Day and World No Tobacco Day in 2022, during the public debate over the generational end game proposal.
Community campaign
A community and lifestyle campaign, including a MOVE futsal tournament. The part of this movement that is not about policy at all.
Community
Community and charitable activity run through the membership, alongside the advocacy work.
Member data
Surveys MOVE ran with its own members on nicotine strength and quit journeys, going back to "Kenapa anda vape?" in the founding years. Aggregate only. We do not publish members' identities or their posts.
Petition, August to November 2025
Keep vape legal in Malaysia: regulate, don't ban. Tracked from 30,000 signatures through 50,000, 55,000 and 85,000 to 101,616 as at 11 November 2025 (archived copy). The original page has since been taken down, and the petition no longer appears in the host platform's own petition index.
Petition, earlier
The earlier petition calling for the Malaysian vape industry to be regulated and vaping recognised as an alternative to cigarettes. It closed with 49,062 supporters and the page is still online. Cited by our critics as well as by us.
This register is incomplete and we would rather map the holes than imply there are none.
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