Kos Haji Mungkin Naik 2011

Oleh:MOHD.SHARIZAABDULLAH

utusankedah@utusan.com.my

YAN 2 Okt. – Kenaikan kos menunaikan ibadah haji bagi jemaah dari negara ini mungkin tidak dapat dielakkan pada tahun depan berikutan peningkatan tambang dan kos penginapan di tanah suci Mekah. 

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom berkata, kerajaan tidak menolak kemungkinan terpaksa menaikkan kos mengerjakan rukun Islam kelima itu pada musim akan datang dan pihaknya sedang mempertimbangkan kewajaran kenaikan tersebut. Katanya, jika benar berlaku, kenaikan itu akan mengambil kira dan menjaga kepentingan semua pihak terutama para jemaah serta pendeposit Lembaga Tabung Haji (TH). “Saya mengharapkan kalau berlaku kenaikan sekalipun ia tidak membebankan jemaah haji.

“Saya rasa jemaah haji dalam konteks yang ada sekarang amat memahami bahawa di rantau sebelah ASEAN, kita mengenakan harga paling rendah,” katanya ketika ditemui pemberita pada Majlis Aidilfitri dan Penyampaian Sumbangan 2010 di Dewan Serbaguna Guar Chempedak di sini hari ini.Jamil Khir berkata, pengurusan TH sedang melaksanakan kajian kenaikan kadar menyeluruh tambang haji tahun hadapan melibatkan pelbagai sudut dan aspek.Katanya, kajian itu perlu dilakukan kerana kenaikan kos penginapan dan tempat tinggal para jemaah di sana selain kos bagi proses pembesaran Masjidil Haram serta kemudahan lain yang disediakan oleh kerajaan Arab Saudi.

Bahkan, kata beliau, kerajaan Arab Saudi meletakkan kenaikan sekurang-kurangnya 25 peratus yang melibatkan penginapan dan makanan di Kota Mekah.

‘‘Kajian mengenai perkara ini mungkin selesai pada penghujung tahun ini apabila pasukan yang ditugaskan tiba di Mekah untuk mengkaji sendiri kos sebenar seperti penginapan di kawasan baru di sana,” ujar beliau.

Source : Utusan Malaysia (3 Oct 2010)

Marilah menuju kejayaan...(bersama2...)

Chairman Public Gold, Mr Louis Ng 

             Ucapan aluan daripada Mr Louis Ng..., Kita mesti bergerak bersama dalam satu kumpulan yang besar walaupun mungkin kelihatan lambat. Seperti kumpulan kafilah yang merentasi padang pasir, mesti dalam kumpulan, seorang diri walaupun mungkin lebih pantas tapi kemungkinan untuk tidak sampai ke destinasi juga tinggi. Begitulah lebih kurang falsafah yang diutarakan, maksudnya juga mendalam. Bersambung. Insya Allah

Negeri Perak cadang lancar dinar dan dirham

Perak To Also Introduce Dinar, Dirham - BERNAMA

02.11.2010 Perak To Also Introduce Dinar, Dirham Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir   KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Bernama) -- After Kelantan, Perak will become the second state in the  counrty to introduce the gold dinar and silver dirham currency to give its people more savings options. Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said discussions on introducing this currency began two years ago and that it would be introduced in stages. "We are also in the process of minting the gold dinar and silver dirham coins," he told Bernama after the World Usury Conference here Tuesday. Asked whether the state would be using the Kelantan model for the currency, Zambry said the state  would be using a different approach. "Actually, we were the first to initiate the idea but Kelantan introduced the currency first but it is  okay with us because it is a good thing," he said, adding, however, the currency would be subject  to Bank Negara requirements. Earlier when disclosing the proposed project to the conference's  participants, Zambry said Perak acknowledged that "gold is a good store of value". He believed that since gold had played the role of money globally for centuries, its value was therefore  expected to rise during a crisis. "By putting some of their savings in gold and silver, the people can protect the value of their savings  from depreciating. "In the current hyper inflationary conditions, this would be truly a positive thing for the people," he said. -- BERNAMA

 

Rebutlah peluang sementara kita masih di sini...!!!

Bersegeralah kita menyimpan emas sebelum media menzahirkan kelebihan emas...

Harga emas dijangka mencecah $1700 - $2000 / ounce

Gold to touch $1700-$2000 : Nick Barisheff-CommodityOnline

Gold to touch $1700-$2000: Nick Barisheff

Published on: December 02 2010 12:00 GMT
SHANGHAI (Commodity Online): Is the surge in gold price going to continue in the coming months? Gold, the hottest commodity that has been on a historic bull run in the last two years, has turned out to be the global investors' first asset choice these days.
While some bullion analysts are still skeptical about the continued bull run of the yellow metal, CEOs and managers of several bullion companies around the world are long-bullish on gold.

One such top CEO is Nick Barisheff. Barisheff, president and CEO of Bullion Management Group Inc says that gold price will continue to hit new heights in the weeks and months to come as investors are confident to pour their money into the precious, yellow metal.

The BMG CEO points out that physical bullion must be at the foundation of any intelligent investment portfolio, and predicts that if gold continues to perform as it has over the past 3 years then the gold price could rise to US$1,700-$2,000 per ounce in 2011.

Speaking at the China Gold & Precious Metals Summit 2010 in Shanghai, Barisheff said that as risks to major currencies increase through competitive devaluation and quantitative easing programs in the West, high net worth investors should seek a safe haven for their assets consider the merits of unencumbered physical bullion with no financial intermediaries or counter-party risk.

"With currencies being deliberately compromised worldwide, owning gold, silver, and platinum bars is like having a real fire extinguisher instead of a paper picture of a fire extinguisher," said Barisheff.

"Many of today's bullion investments really are paper proxies rather than physical bullion," he noted pointing out that the BMG BullionBars program provides clients with the opportunity to buy and hold physical bullion in Canada on an allocated and insured basis, with the option of on-demand delivery anywhere in the world."

Barisheff also points to Canada's excellent financial fundamentals to justify storing bullion in that country. Canada enjoys the security of the World's soundest banking system, according to the World Economic Forum.

According to the International Monetary Fund, Canada is also projected to have the fastest economic growth among G7 countries for 2011, as well as the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the G7.

Toronto-based Bullion Management Group Inc. is one of the world's fast-growing precious metals bullion investment companies, with $CDN 460 million of bullion investments under management.

BMG BullionFund is the world's first and only open-end Mutual Fund Trust that invests directly in equal dollar amounts of unencumbered fully allocated gold, silver and platinum bullion which also qualifies for all registered plans.

Simpanlah dinar(emas) dan dirham(perak)

mulakan simpanan dinar dan dirham sekarang

gantikan simpanan wang kertas kepada simpanan dinar(emas) dan dirham(perak).

China beli emas lagi

Chinese view gold as real money and demand is exploding-Mineweb

Chinese view gold as real money and demand is exploding

News that Chinese gold imports are at record levels suggests both the government and the people are purchasers and this is one of the current drivers of the global gold price.

Author: Julian Phillips
Posted:  Sunday , 05 Dec 2010

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Chinese demand is behaving as we predicted.   If you look at the recent history of Chinese gold demand, you start in 2003 when gold ownership was made acceptable, having been banned from 1945 until then.   This occurred at a time when the agency for the People's Bank of China began buying gold for their reserves.   Prior to that, HSBC tried to persuade China to buy gold, but the time was not quite right for them.   Now it is very right for China to buy gold.   What has happened since 2003 and during 2010?

THE GROWTH OF THE CHINESE GOLD MARKETS

Once allowable, gold ownership was, hesitatingly, encouraged.   But first, as with so many areas of finance in China, the embracing of the western financial system had to be tempered with the development of skills and structures to handle the changes.   In gold's case, the Shanghai gold market had to be instituted, the banking system's gold distribution had to be established, all of which has taken since 20003 to bring a sufficiently capable system to their gold markets.  

In the past year, we have seen the Chinese Government Issue permits to import gold into the country by a much larger number of banks and importers.  The Chinese gold distribution system has still a long way to go, in line with the development of the country overall.   Gradually, the distribution system for gold was slowly developed, first in the main centers for the newly wealthy, then through the select top five Chinese banks and their main central outlets.   All the banks are now allowed to distribute gold and slowly, it will reach the western outer reaches of China as the country develops.  

GROWTH OUT OF THE GROWTH OF CHINA ITSELF

China's development, as we all know, began with the export of cheap parts sub-contracted out of the developed world, then moved onto exports of their own.   The south-east and mid-east benefited first with infrastructural development fanning out from there.  

Now infrastructural development is reaching into all other parts of the nation at break-neck speed.   With this development comes a new middle class of hard working people earning small proportions of what they could in the developed world, but saving up to 40 % of their income. 

Now this middle class is growing explosively alongside the overall development of the nation.   Until recently they held their savings in bank deposits, which is why when interest rates go up, Chinese middle class disposable income rises with them.  

For good reasons, the government has realized that China, as a whole, will benefit from its citizens owning gold as well as the central bank, the People's Bank of China.    Hence, they are actively encouraging the Chinese people to buy gold, as are the banks.      The Chinese have memories of how gold is real money.   They are buying it because it is seen as true wealth in all seasons.   They don't buy it simply as a hedge against inflation, but because it will weather all sorts of financial ails.

CHINESE CENTRAL BANK GOLD BUYING

In addition, the government published two years ago that the People's Bank of China had added 400 tonnes to its reserves.   It became clear that another government agency was acquiring this gold over the previous five year period for the central bank.   We are of the opinion that the same agency continues to acquire gold for the central bank.   This will only be disclosed when [likely in another three years - every five years] it suits the government to disclose it.   However, we now realize that it may well be a mistake to think that the 400 tonnes acquired over the five years prior to 2008 was acquired at an even rate.   This amount could well have been the buying of rising local production over those years.   After all, as the Chinese themselves have said, buying on the international market can be difficult without forcing the gold prices up [it can be done on a ‘limit' order basis, accepting offers only, without chasing prices].  It makes far more sense to buy local production from local producers ‘off' market.  

We are aware that the government is still buying in the international market as well as local production but it is impossible to discern what amounts, without the government supplying that information.   More than that, it is very difficult to discern what the government is buying and what the Chinese jewelry and investment trade is taking.   With local production of 340 tonnes this year and imports set to be around 280 tonnes for the year, with an unknown amount perhaps stored in Hong Kong vaults for the government agency, we do know that China is taking at least 620 tonnes in total in 2010.   But what will happen in the Chinese gold market in 2011 and beyond and what will that do to the gold price?

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Hadis Rasulullah S.A.W

Abu Bakr ibn Abi Maryam meriwayatkan bahawa dia mendengar Rasulullah S.A.W bersabda, " Akan tiba satu zaman di mana tiada apa yang bernilai dan boleh digunakan oleh umat manusia. Maka simpanlah dinar dan dirham (untuk digunakan)" - Musnad Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.