Petrol RON97 naik 10 sen, RON95 kekal
KUALA LUMPUR 3 April 2012- Harga petrol RON97 dinaikkan 10 sen kepada RM2.90 seliter berkuat kuasa tengah malam ini.
Presiden Persatuan Pengusaha Stesen Minyak Malaysia (PDAM) Datuk Hashim Othman ketika dihubungi malam ini mengesahkan kenaikan harga itu.
Beliau berkata harga diesel kekal pada RM1.80 seliter.
Minggu lepas, kerajaan mengumumkan harga petrol RON95 kekal pada RM1.90 per walaupun harga bahan api di pasaran dunia naik baru-baru ini. - Bernama
Food prices triggering global unrest -- UN
2011/02/04 ROME: United Nations food agencies on Friday warned that record-high prices for basic commodities are helping generate unrest around the world and contributed to the ousting of the Tunisian president last month.
“Not only is there a risk, but there have already been riots in some parts of the world because of rising prices,” Jacques Diouf, head of the UN’s Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told reporters.
“Some governments have found themselves in difficult situations and there is even one that has fallen,” he said — a reference to the toppling of Tunisia’s veteran ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in a popular revolt on January 14.
The FAO on Thursday said food prices have reached their highest level since the UN agency began measuring them in 1990.
The FAO’s index of monthly variations for a variety of staples rose 3.4 percent from December 2010 to reach 231 points.
The World Food Programme, another UN agency, said: “The events unfolding across the Middle East these past few weeks serve as a warning to us all about the important role that food security plays in calming public anger.”
“Across the region, we have seen civil protests driven by a complex array of different factors but all sharing one thing in common — growing anxiety about rising food prices and concern about access to food,” it said in a statement.
Prices add “stress to the carefully calibrated systems in place to bring enough food into countries to feed hungry populations, and to provide the subsidies that ensure it is sold at prices that are accessible to the poor.” France, which has promised to stamp out food price volatility as the current head of the G20 group of leading world economies, warned of “hunger riots”.
“There is a real risk of hunger riots,” French Agriculture Minister Bruno Le Maire said at a joint press conference with Diouf.
Le Maire called for “structural measures” to avoid spikes in food prices, including greater transparency over production and stocks.
He said that G20 countries should agree on a system of food stocks that can be released for parts of the world that are most at risk.
“Speculation on hunger in the world is economically dangerous and morally unacceptable,” he said, referring to widespread criticism from campaigners of the role played by financial speculators on global commodity markets.
A previous sharp rise in food prices in 2007 and 2008 triggered food riots in a number of African countries, as well as in Haiti and the Philippines.
The average for the FAO’s Food Price Index in 2008 was 200 points. -- AFP
Thumbs down to hike in fuel, sugar prices
December 5, 2010, KOTA KINABALU: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Central Supreme Council member cum PKR Sabah treasurer Dr Roland Chia Ming Shen has condemned the Government for its latest decision to increase the prices of RON95 grade of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas.
Chia opined that the fuel price increases will cause inflation in the transportation sector and that will escalate prices in all sectors of the economy.
“Food will cost more and the increase in prices of daily groceries will certainly add burden to the ordinary citizens especially wage earners with families to feed, the elderly and also the pensioners.
“Even our oil producing neighboring country Brunei Darussalam sells its fuel at a price that is 40 per cent lower than Malaysia so why can’t we have a similar pricing in terms of pumped fuel in the kiosk,” he said.
According to Chia, the sudden announcement by the Government and “lightning fast” implementation in less than seven hours was a cheap and cunning trick by the Government.
If its intention was genuine, the hikes would have been planned and implemented in stages with prior full public notice, he said, adding, “this is an ambush tactic because the government is afraid of public reaction.”
On another issue, Chia said he was puzzled with the reason given by the Government with regards to the withdrawal of subsidies.
“The Government claimed that the subsidy withdrawal is to save the money yet it still insists to build the 100-storey tower. Just like the Petronas Twin Towers, this 1Malaysia Tower once completed will see all the government linked companies (GLCs) forced to rent out all the floors, thus reducing the cost of maintaining the project,” he pointed out.
“Where does it benefit the ordinary rakyat? What needs to be removed are not the subsidies but corruption which is costing the country at least RM4.0 billion annually instead of the expected savings of RM1.9 billion from subsidy cuts,” he said.
This certainly does not augur well with the 1Malaysia concept of “Rakyat Didahulukan Pencapaian Diutamakan” (people first development now), Chia lamented.
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December 03, 2010, Kota Kinabalu: Sabah DAP demanded the Government to scrap the Cabotage Policy, pointing out people in the State would be on the losing end now with the recent hike in the RON97 fuel price.
Its Secretary Dr Edwin Bosi reminded that any fuel price increase will have a drastic effect on the price of goods in Sabah, adding the Cabotage Policy required all shipments to go through Port Klang first before coming here.
"This policy has somewhat raised the cost of goods by at least 25 per cent and Sabahans are paying through their noses. Those having interest in the Cabotage Policy are laughing all the way to the bank.
This is indeed 1Malaysia 2Prices. What happened to the calls to scrap this policy?
"According to the Government, this (fuel price hike) is necessary due to an increase in the price of crude oil in the world marketÉthe question is, are we not an oil producer?" he said.
The Cabotage Policy also retards the economic growth of the State, he added.
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“Ada yang buat spekulasi harga petrol akan naik. Saya tegaskan perkara itu tidak akan berlaku. Malah, kerajaan mahu turunkan harga petrol.
“Kalau harga minyak turun, kerajaan akan turunkan harga petrol dan itu yang kita (kerajaan) akan lakukan. Namun, buat masa ini harga petrol di pasaran tidak berubah,”
Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri, Koperasi dan Kepenggunaan (KPDNKK), Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob
