Bad movements?Good movements!!!

Malaysian government announced that the prices of oil,gas and sugar will increase into a proper stage effective from 16th July,2010 in order to cut some subsidies.The details are as follow:

From Friday, the subsidies for sugar, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and diesel will be cut as part of the gradual subsidy rationalisation programme, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office on Thursday.

The price of sugar will go up 25sen to RM1.75 per kg; LPG will go up 10sen to RM1.85 per kg; petrol RON95 will be up 5sen to RM1.85 per litre and diesel will be up 5sen to RM1.75 per litre.

RON 97 will no longer be subsidised. It will be subjected to a managed float, where the price will be determined by the automatic pricing mechanism, the statement said.

(Reported by TheStar)

In fact,I have totally agreed the movements of cutting the subsidies and I had talked about it one month ago.Oil and gas have been limited resources all over the world and they will create a lot of pollutions.By increasing the prices of them,it could reduce such issues.Eating too much sugar will cause diabetes.Higher price of sugar will let people reduce the consumption of it and so being much healthier.However,I also care about how the government will monitor on spending on savings of those subsidies to affirm that the savings will put into places where it could benefit all Malaysians.

I do hope that the accounts of Malaysian government could be more transparent and the officers could also do the jobs hard and think of the citizens in every second as they are public servants.

Petrol and Electricity bill go up

Petrol and Diesel retail price are raised yesterday.That is a sharp increment of 41% in Petrol which has been a heavy expense in Malaysian’s life.As Petrol is invovled a lot of industries,therefore we can imagine that in the coming days and months,more and more goods and services will increase their prices and the pressure from inflation will be horrible even if the government always says that the inflation is controllable under 3-5%,which we all feel that is not true as our incremental expenses are much greater than that percentage.

In fact,under such a worse situation I rarely heard that one company increased employee salaries or allowances in order to help their employees agaist the inflation.I think in a mature society(country),a company,being a part of the community at large,should take their social responsibility as a role of the corporation.Most Asian companies don’t know it or recognize it and even some European or American companies are not working well on that matter.

When will the Asian companies know it and run it?A Question.