dan MT bukan Majlis Tertinggi (UMNO). No!
Ia adalah Malaysia-Today, belog kepunyaan RPK.
Dan RPK bukan-lah Parti Keadilan Rakyat walaupun kedua pihak tersebut adalah sedikit-sebanyak kaitan. Apakah rangkaian itu jangan-lah tanya Desi. Itu adalah untuk ER (bukan Emergency Room -- dalam English diRaja adalah EsteemedReaders iaitu Pembaca yand dihormati sekalian:)berteki-teka. Ada juga hadiah -- satu malam berisi tehtarik dan no-ledge dengan Universiti Bangsar!
Okay, balik dari digression yang adalah tabiat sronok Beloger ini tersendiri, jangan ikut K! Nanti Desi sue yu atas caj "Plagiarism"! Ingat tak Mitch Albom Ingat ke Hari Sebelum September 11?
Jika anda ingin Desi menui\lis non-sense, tak apalah saya pegang P Lesen. Tak sanggup menerima non-sense saya, tak apalah, Blogsworld adalah lapangan main democratik (dalam Inggeris kata democrazy! Tanya-lah brudder Hishamuddin Rais yang terinterbiu only Sunday Star, Ignoramus:)
27/11: Harga petrol patut turun
Category: General Posted by: Raja Petra Kamaruddin
Malaysia Today
Kerajaan mampu menurunkan harga petrol sebanyak 25% bagi menyamai penurunan 25% dalam harga minyak antarabangsa.
Harga minyak antarabangsa telah jatuh sebanyak 25% sejak paras terendahnya pada 20 Oktober dengan harga US$57.
Kerajaan patut turunkan harga petrol di Malaysia berikutan kejatuhan dalam harga minyak mentah dunia.
Semua kesal dengan tindakan kerajaan yang enggan menurunkan harga minyak walaupun harga minyak antarabangsa telah jatuh. Penjelasan Timbalan Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna Datuk S.Veerasingam bahawa kerajaan masih perlu menanggung kos subsidi yang besar, tidak mengakui keuntungan besar yang diperolehi oleh Petronas.
Rakyat berhak menikmati manfaat daripada keuntungan yang diperolehi daripada minyak kerana ia milik rakyat dan bukan milik mana-mana syarikat atau indidividu.
Apabila kerajaan mengumumkan kenaikan dalam harga petrol dan disel pada 28 February 2006, harga minyak mentah Brent dan WTI berlegar sekitar USD60-USD67 setong. Harga petrol telah dinaikkan sebanyak 30 sen seliter, kenaikan paling tinggi setakat ini. Walau bagaimanapun, dalam bulan lepas, harga minyak mentah telah berlegar sekitar USD55-USD60 setong.
Namun, kerajaan tetap mengatakan ia akan hanya pertimbang menurunkan harga minyak pada tahun depan sekiranya harga minyak turun di bawah USD50 setong. Pada masa yang sama, Petronas baru saja mengumumkan keuntungan bersih setengah tahun sebanyak RM27.27 bilion, peningkatan sebanyak 20.6% berbanding dalam tempoh yang sama tahun lepas. Perangkaan Unit Perancang Ekonomi juga telah merumuskan bahawa kadar inflasi bagi 2006 ialah yang tertinggi sejak 1999, menyebabkan pengguna terus dibebankan dengan kenaikan harga yang mendadak.
Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim menegaskan bahawa, jika sebelum ini rakyat terpaksa faham yang kerajaan dibebankan dengan subsidi bahan api, kini masa untuk kerajaan faham pula kesengsaraan rakyat.
Menurut beliau, kerajaan sebelum ini tidak teragak-agak untuk menaikkan harga petrol beberapa kali dalam satu tempoh masa yang singkat, tetapi kini ia mengambil masa yang lama hanya untuk pertimbang menurunkan harga minyak. Tambahan pula, rakyat sedang menghadapi ekonomi yang malap, penurunan dalam pelaburan asing dan pengangguran yang tinggi dan juga inflasi.
Seterusnya beliau mendesak agar kerajaan meletakkan Petronas di bawah tanggungjawab Parlimen bagi memastikan kekayaan negara diurus secara telus dan bertanggungjawab.
UPDATEd Nov 28 @12.24PM:
Desi sighted the Original Press Statement by Sdr Anwar Ibrahim, also from MT, and reprise it here for those whose Bahasa, like Desi's, is just half-past-se7en!~~~
27/11: Petrol prices should be lowered now!
Category: General Posted by: Raja Petra
MEDIA STATEMENT
The government should lower retail prices for petrol in Malaysia following the recent fall in crude oil prices, increasing Petronas profits and high inflation.
When the government announced the increase in petrol and diesel prices on 28 February 2006, the price of Brent and WTI crude oil hovered around USD60-USD67 per barrel. Petrol prices were raised as much as 30 sen per liter, the highest increase thus far. Nevertheless, within the last month, the price of crude oil has been hovering around USD55-USD60 per barrel.
Yet the government insists that they will only consider lowering oil prices next year if the price of crude oil goes below USD50 per barrel. At the same time, Petronas has just announced a half-year net profit of RM27.27 billion, a 20.6% increase compared to the same period last year. EPU statistics have also concluded that the inflation rate for 2006 is the highest since 1999, causing the consumer to be further burdened with drastic price increases.
If previously the rakyat had to understand the government's burden due to the fuel subsidies, now it is time the government understand the plight of the rakyat. The government had no qualms to increase petrol prices continuously within a short period of time, but now want to take a long time simply to consider it. Furthermore, the rakyat are facing a lacklustre economy, a decrease in foreign investment and high unemployment as well as inflation.
The government should also place Petronas accountable to Parliament to ensure that our national wealth is managed transparently and accountably.
ANWAR IBRAHIM
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Another item of sufficient importance for Desi to
Put On Record~~
From TheEdgeDaily.Com,
Saturday November 25, 2006
Najmuddin: Unlawful for GLCs to appoint advisers
SUBANG JAYA: Public listed government-linked companies (GLCs) should stop appointing advisers because the practice is unlawful and contravenes proper corporate governance guidelines.
The call came from Malaysian Institute of Corporate Governance (MICG) president Datuk Seri Najmuddin Khas who said the advisers were legally unfit to carry out decision-making for the companies.
He said there were proven cases of political interference and ministerial directives that had contributed to inefficiencies and ill running of the GLCs.
“These advisers are legally non-existence. We should let the board of directors make all the decisions,” he said at a sideline of SMB Recognition Award 2006 Winner announcement (yesterday).
Megat Najmuddin describes such an adviser as a “shadow” director who is also responsible for all the decisions he made.
“This particular adviser can be deemed as a shadow director and as a director, he is subject to the law. If there is anything that goes wrong, he is also liable (as any ordinary director is),” he said.
The term “adviser” was too ambiguous and did not reflect the person’s specific corporate skill, he said.
“The GLCs are also the concern of everyone because we are talking about taxpayers’ money that goes to these companies. We all are their stakeholders,” he said.
“So before a GLC agrees to appoint an adviser, it must think about this issue clearly as we don’t want a situation where this shadow director is called to court and held accountable by the shareholders and the authorities.”
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