In electronic trading in Asia today price of gold has limited mobility,
while still trying to continue the rise that began last night (30/11).
This precious metal commodity prices lead to a condition biggest weekly decline in a month
later in uncertain fate of the U.S. budget.
The market still has not received a clear direction
regarding the agreement
between the government and
the U.S. Congress
stronghold dominated by Republicans. Although
the signals sent from
both sides refer to the positive, but the
lack of clear and
detailed draft budget
still weighing on market movements.
Throughout this week the price of gold moved quite volatile. On Wednesday the gold price had declined sharply to reach
its lowest level in 1.5 weeks at 1705.64 dollars
per troy ounce. Although it has
rebounded, but
the price of gold to
face strong resistance
level in 1730 dollars.
Nymex gold futures prices seem to move flat. Today the price of gold futures only show a decrease of 60 cents and traded at 1726.60 dollars per troy ounce.
Meanwhile, spot gold prices today are in the position of 1727.70 dollars per troy ounce,
an increase of 2.2 dollars of posis closing trade early this morning.
The metal gold is still not showing signs that will surely where movement. For now the hope of avoiding U.S. fiscal gap is
likely to push up
commodity prices. To this day the gold price will experience movement in the
range 1717 - 1735 dollars
per troy ounce.
After yesterday had increased,
as of today (28/11)
South Korea's stock market ended up experiencing consolidation.
Investors apparently utilize the stock price increases occurred yesterday and now prefer to conduct profit-taking.
While the global
economic fundamentals, conditions are still much less
negative moving U.S. stocks overnight closed less encouraging.
The Kospi index closed down
0.65% to 1912.78
basis points. While
the index futures declined
by 1.95 points to 252.3
basis points, with the support level of 248.99 points and 255.57 points at level resistant.
The UN Human Rights Commission passed a
resolution urging Sri Lanka to investigate alleged human rights abuses
in the last days of the war with Tamil Tiger rebels.
The
resolution proposed by the United States escaped with 24 votes in favor,
15 declined, and eight abstained.
Government of Sri Lanka has expressed outrage over the receipt
of the resolution, saying they should be given time to complete the
investigation without any foreign interference.
They
have also formed a special commission to investigate allegations of
human rights violations that result among other states that human rights
violations occur at the level of individual soldiers.
The commission report was not at
all satisfactory number of parties inside and outside the country.Clinton welcomed
In
2010 the European Union revoke Sri Lanka from the list of major trading
partners due to the reluctance to address the human rights issues.
U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has issued a statement welcoming the
decision by the UN Human Rights Commission.
"The United States along with the international
community to send a strong message that Sri Lanka will only achieve
lasting peace through reconciliation and accountability, and the
international community is ready to help," as written in the statement.
The United
Nations estimates that bloom throughout the civil war of 1972 to 2009,
it has led to 100,000 people were killed.
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan army defeated the Tamil
Tigers to end a brutal civil war that has lasted for 26 years.
Estimated that about 40,000 civilians were killed in the
final period of the civil war even though the government put the number
of casualties reach 9,000 people.
In the
final period of the war, both the Sri Lankan army and Tamil Tiger rebels
accused of war crimes.Attacking
human rights advocatesProtests
The pro-government protesters in front of the UN office in
Colombo.
The vote on this resolution lasts d midst of the
government's efforts to corner the social workers and journalists who
supported the resolution by referring to them as 'traitors'.
In recent weeks, a number
of citizens of Sri Lanka-including politicians, religious leaders and
former Sri Lankan army-took to the streets to oppose the resolution.
Government TV station even use some Sinhala
program to denounce the journalists who considered helping the rebels
and traitors.
A BBC correspondent in the capital,
Colombo, Charles Haviland, reported a few journalists-who are still
living in Sri Lanka-is not mentioned by name but their photos were
obscured aired.
An activist organization, Freedom Movement condemned the
broadcast media because in the days before the broadcast as it
encourages violence against the person accused.
Thousands
of factory workers in
Bangladesh held a rally
in the capital, Dhaka,
to demand justice for the
deaths of more than 100 people in a fire at a garment factory on Saturday
night (24/11).
Some of the demonstrators threw stones and damaged vehicles that they met
on Monday (26/11).
They blocked roads in protest in Dhaka garment factory fire related Savar industrial area.
"The workers in a number of
factories have left the
workplace and join in
the protests. They want severe penalties for the owners of Tazreen,"
Dhaka police chief Habibur Rahman was quoted as saying by AFP news
agency.
Tazreen are factory suffered severe fire on Saturday night.
Around
200 factories closed today.
The protest was held after a fire at a garment factory in the industrial
area Savar Tazreen
killed more than 100 people.
separate
fires
The government
announced that Tuesday
designated as a national day
of mourning in memory of the victims died.
The protesters are also demanding safety improvements
in working conditions.
"Most of the factory workers
jerks. They
wanted safety improvements at factories are regarded as death traps,"
said a union president, Babul
Akter.
Ahead
of the protests lasted
another fire occurred at a separate plant outside Dhaka. Authorities say the fire for nearly succeeded controlled.
Italian
conservation expert still working to save the art items are buried by a massive earthquake
last May.
One of the
buildings damaged by the
earthquake that struck the
city of Mirandola,
Emilia Romagna region, including
San Francesco,
an Italian family basilica,
Pico, who
once ruled the region.
The basilica is
one of the most historic buildings in Mirandola.
A number of items including the remaining pillars basilicas and tombs Pico
family.
In
addition to San Francesco,
the city's cathedral also
suffered heavy damage
from the earthquake on 29
May.
Andrea Sardo - who
worked at the
Ministry of Culture Italy-including one of the
experts involved to assess
damage to historic buildings in the region.
Sardo also examines the impact of the
earthquake damage in
Assisi and Aquila,
but what happened at
Mirandola - he-is the most severe.
San
Francesco and cathedral were among 2200 churches and other historic buildings damaged by the earthquake.
Since May, conservation experts started tracking thousands of
objects of art before
the goods are further
damaged by the rain and cold
weather.
Team of experts
to train students and
local residents to record
in detail what needs to be
improved, including sculpture
and painting.
Art items damaged taken to a special place to be cleaned and repaired by conservation experts.
Funds are needed
to correct items of art
and historical heritage is
estimated at U.S. $ 3
billion.
EU offers help around U.S. $ 856 million for redevelopment,
while the Italian government
has pledged U.S. $ 10.3 million to repair historic items.
Egyptian
mediators held a separate
meeting with a delegation of Israel and Hamas
in Cairo, on
Monday (26/11),
discussing the details of
the truce reached last week.
The
truce is ending
an eight-day battle that killed 167 Palestinians and six Israelis.
Egyptian
officials said the meeting
was to discuss the
Palestinian insistence that
Israel open more border
gate.
Hopefully, Egyptian officials said,
in the end the move would
end the six-year
blockade by Israel and the
Gaza Strip, controlled by
Hamas.
Senior
Hamas leader, Mahmoud al-Zahar,
told reporters said he
wanted all the entrance of goods into Gaza, which numbered four door opened.
Currently, only one operated
doors.
Israeli
restrictions in 2006,
following the election
victory of Hamas in Gaza.
Group
known as Hamas in Palestine confirms not recognize the existence of Israel.
Tightened restrictions on Gaza by
Israel, with the support of
Egypt, after
Hamas seized Gaza completely through the civil war.
But
in recent years eased
restrictions in Gaza, but Israel continued to restrict the
entry of many types of goods into Gaza, including
materials for construction.
Israel argued these materials can be used to
assemble the weapon.
Optimis
returned accompanied Indonesia's national team to show off at the
biennial football tournament for the ASEAN countries, the AFF Cup."From the technical side, the
mental, and the composition of players, Indonesia can compete with other
teams. Believe we can win," said Habil Marati, Indonesia national team
manager."Graph appearance of
the players on the rise and we certainly hope the players at the top
when competing in the final round," said Abel.He added that Indonesia has a great opportunity to win the AFF
Cup 2012 after looking at the appearance of the player in some game
trials.Before competing in the AFF Cup,
which starts on Saturday (24/11), 1-0 win over Indonesia and Timor
Lester 0-0 draw against Cameroon national team."Timor-Leste is not an easy team
dikalahkah while Cameroon are a strong team. So, we are optimistic that
we will achieve the best results," said Abel.Two years ago, Indonesia advanced to the top of the party,
but in two games in the finals, Indonesia was forced to recognize the
benefits of Malaysia.
In the first match in Kuala Lumpur,
Indonesia lost 0-3 and in the second match in Jakarta, Indonesia only
narrowly won 2-1.Malaysia
led 4-2 on aggregate to win the AFF Cup for the first time in 2010.Optimism Similar delivered Persebaya former manager, Saleh
Mukadar.In view of Saleh, the failure of Indonesia win the
trophy two years ago caused more by non-technical factors. This time Saleh saw nontechnical factors are not as big as last
year."PSSI Board seems
much more focused on football. This is an encouraging development. I am
sure Indonesia will look good," said Saleh.The composition of Indonesia this year, unchanged from two years
ago, among others due to the duality in PSSI who delivered two football
league, the Indonesia Super League (LSI) and the Indonesia Premier
League (LPI).LSI is not recognized by
the PSSI and management LSI prohibit players entered the national team
in this league, but some of Indonesia's top players in this league.Against LaosSupporters of Indonesia
Ecuador
gave political asylum
to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, two months after he took refuge
in the South American
country's embassy in London.
Assange
is trying to avoid extradition from Britain to Sweden.
Ecuador
said they were worried about
the possibility of Assange's
rights are violated.
Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino accused Britain of "threat"
to enter the embassy and
held.
Assange refuge at the embassy of Ecuador in June. He hunted in
Sweden for questioning related to rape allegations. But he
denied the allegations.
The Foreign Office said the
decision to grant political asylum would not affect the legal obligation to extradite Assange UK to Sweden.
'Protecting vulnerable
people'
The ministry
said, "We continue to seek a
negotiated settlement that allows us to carry
out obligations under the Extradition Act."
The British government will still
try to hold him and not let Assange out of the embassy.
When he came out,
he would be arrested.
Foreign Minister of Ecuador,
Patino said his government
believed that Assange
fears over political repression was "legitimate".
He said his country was still running tradition of protecting the vulnerable.
"We
believe that our friendship with the British stay in touch," he added.
The announcement was witnessed
directly by Assange and embassy staff told a news conference
via video from Quito.
Greek police managed to reinvent a
number of antiques were stolen from the Museum of Olympia in February.Three people were also reported to have been
arrested in the disclosure case.Police said undercover
officers who caught three while trying to sell one of the most valuable
antique gold ring were stolen from the museum.Police said the three robbers commit theft by tampering with
storage some are antiques.They
had also managed to paralyze the museum guard who was on guard at the
time.Cheap SalePolice said one of the suspects had attempted
to sell a ring that is made in the bronze age to the police posing as
buyers.They had offered the ring for around 1.5
million euros but later they dropped the price to 300,000 euros.Of the arrest of
the suspect, the police then managed to find the other stolen items from
the Museum of Olympia.The actors keep their stolen goods
by way of wrap and buried in a rural area near the city of Patras.The plan of these items will be returned to the
museum next week.The impact of
the crisisOlympia Mayor had said
terajdi event has a direct connection with employee cuts and the Greek
economic crisis.Later, the
government is reducing the number of guards on duty at the museum as the
impact of policy tightening budgets in the country.Greek
Culture Minister, Pavlos Geroulanos had offered his resignation due to
the historic events of the theft of items, but the request was rejected
by the government.Numerous antiques robbery at several museums in Greece
have indeed shamed the country's government.Events at the Museum of Olympia lasted only a
week after the theft of paintings by Picasso and a number of other
collections occurred in the National Gallery of Athens.
China
managed to land the aircraft on the aircraft carrier
for the first time, according to the defense ministry.
Chinese fighter J-15 landed in Soviet-made
aircraft carrier measuring
300 meters in training recently.
Liaoning, China's
first aircraft carrier, went into
operation last September.
China says the carrier has been tested and will be
increased capacity to protect
the interests of the state.
Analysts said the carrier would help Beijing in military operations related to
the territorial dispute.
China has never announced that the country's navy has landing sophisticated technology,
the AFP news agency reports.
J-15 fighter can carry antikapal missiles, air-to-air
and air-to-ground as well as a bomb with a particular precision, according
to the Xinhua news agency said without naming sources in the Navy.
Dispute
with Japan
Liaoning
mother ship - the name of Chinese provinces
where the ship was rejuvenated-a former Soviet vessel bought from Ukraine.
Aircraft
carrier called the Varyag
originally built in the 1980s for the Soviet navy but was never completed.
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the ship was based in the Ukrainian port.
A Chinese company bought the ship as scrap metal to be used as a floating casino in Macau,
but in 2001 the ship
was transported to
China.
Chinese military last year to make sure that the ship has been developed to become
the country's first aircraft
carrier.
The development
of the aircraft carrier was made during Japan and other countries in the region
expressed concern about the
ability of the Chinese Navy.
China and Japan
are involved disputed
islands in East China Sea.
Several
Southeast Asian countries are
also involved in a
dispute with Beijing linked
the South China Sea.
The leaders of the Communist Party
of China allocates
billions of dollars to
rejuvenate the armed forces.
At
least four people were killed and dozens more were injured when a bomb
detonated targeting a Shiite Muslim religious procession in the central
region of northwest Pakistan on Sunday (25/11).
This is the second bomb
attack occurred in the town of Dera Ismail Khan after a similar bomb
exploded and killed eight people Shiites on Saturday (24/11).
Taliban fighters have said are
responsible for a number of attacks against Shiite actions in Pakistan
including that occurred on Saturday.
But they claimed no responsibility in action attacks that
happened today.
Town of Dera Ismail Khan are the basis of Sunni
Islamist militant group who see Shiites as infidels group.
Witnesses
said the bomb that exploded on Sunday was not from a store on the way
to the local market.
When the explosion occurred
Shias were passing the road.
Images
on television showed some of the victims were seriously injured middle
transported by medics to be taken to a local hospital.Pengmanan tightened
A doctor said the
death toll is likely to rise as many are seriously injured.
A BBC
correspondent in Islamabad, Orla Guerin said there were concerns about
further deadly attacks and will take a lot of casualties against the
Shiites since they are preparing to do the Ashura anniversary this
weekend.
Pakistan's
government has deployed thousands of police to prevent violence
continues.
The move comes after Sunni militant group issued a threat of
attack against Shias.
The security forces
had also ordered the suspension of cell phone service in major cities
as a security measure in Muharam celebrations that took place since
Saturday.
Cessation of cell
phone service starts at 06:00 Saturday until the following day. Some cities will not even accept cell
phone service for two consecutive days.
But in Saturday's
attack, a bomb blast in fact triggered by a remote control television
that is turned by the perpetrator.
The latest report also said in
today's blast perpetrators used the same way to trigger bombs.
In a
press statement on Wednesday
(21/11),
archaeologists said four human skeletons were found in the ruins of Machu Picchu is protected.
Of
the four skeletons, three skeletons thought to have
lived between the years
1300 and 1500 AD,
while the other frameworks are estimated to
live in the pre-Inca civilization was born,
which is about 600 or
700 years earlier.
Experts believe one of the older framework that is one-one
Killke tribal members who lived before the Inca civilization.
Before the Inca civilization
It said the
historic framework conditions are in good shape.
So far archaeologists were investigating to determine the exact age of these skeletons.
Before
dominated the Spanish in the
1500s, the
Incas ruled the area
now covers country
Colombia to Ecuador for several hundred years.
The Machu Picchu,
which was built over 500
years ago, is a
treasure trove for
archaeologists and anthropologists
to uncover clues about the lives of the Incas and their predecessors.
The protesters accused Yingluck is
'stuffed' brother, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was
ousted by his opponents in 2006.Thai
authorities concerned this rally will have an impact on the country's
stability after Yingluck power since last year.
Demonstrations involving tens of thousands of people
was originally running order, but chaos ended after most of them tried
to break through barricades of concrete.
Police then fired tear gas
to disperse the crowd that seeks to break through the barricade.
Earlier this week, reports the AP news agency, Yingluck had
ordered the police to be wary of anti-government protests. He also set up the
application of a special law is needed if the country in an emergency.
On many
occasions, Yunglick also accused his opponents who rallied
pemerintahanya trying to overthrow the legally elected through the
election.Led by
retired generals
The rally was held on
Saturday by a group calling itself the "bald Siamese" or "Protective
Thailand", led retired army general, Boonlert Kaewprasit.
This group from the start
accusing Yingluck government involvement in corruption and being a
puppet of Thaksin.
In his speech
in front of the protesters, stating Boonlert action will run
peacefully. He also said:
"I vow to bring down the current government."
Demonstrations were held in Bangkok Royal Garden Plaza,
which is located near the parliament building and the site of protests a
year ago.
The
protests ended in bloody clashes occur Thailand in 2010, when
supporters of Thaksin - who was wearing a red shirt - was the center of
government in Bangkok, demanding the anti-Thaksin government.
This
then triggers protest the military crackdown that killed at least 91
people and injured more than 1,700 people.
Former prime minister Thaksin
since 2008 and has been living in exile, called many people to avoid the
threat of a two-year imprisonment in a corruption case.
Thaksin
has been popular among the rural poor, who want to see him pardoned and
returned to power.
But Thaksin reviled among the middle class and the
educated urban elite, who see an authoritarian figure.
Political machine
supported Thaksin, Yingluck was elected in a landslide victory in the
elections in August 2011.
One of the six new cardinals are new cardinals Lebanon, Bechara
Boutros Al Rahi, which is the
patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church.
The
Vatican said the representative
of the Lebanese Shia Islamist party,
Hezbollah, will
attend the appointment
ceremony.
Other new cardinals come from Nigeria, India, the Philippines,
Colombia and the United
States, and
none of Italy.
Hezbollah Deputy present
This fact called unusual because Italy had been the largest contributor to the cardinal in the Catholic
Church.
The addition of
six new cardinals will increase the number of member colleges of cardinals to number 212 and number 120 cardinal-Elektor.
Currently there are 116 cardinal-Elektor, but two of
them, Cardinal Francis Arinze and Cardinal Renato Martino, will be aged
80 years before the date of
24 November 2012 and thus
lost their right to vote
in a future conclave.
During
his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has appointed 67 new cardinals.
This is the third time the award to Messi and make
the player nicknamed The Flea was a fourth player to win this award
three times.
Other players to have achieved is
similar to the Dutch duo Johan Cruyff and Marco van Basten, and French
legend Michel Platini.
24-year-old player beat Real Madrid attacker
Cristiano Ronaldo and teammate Xavi.
"I think Messi will break all the records that exist," said
Xavi.
"He
was young, just 24. He will be the best footballer in history," added
Xavi.
Meanwhile, Messi said he
was very happy with this personal achievement.
"This is my third time to win and this is
an honor. I would like to thank all the people close to me, his
teammates, coaches and everyone in Barcelona," said Messi.
"I would also like to thank the
Argentina national team," said Messi.
Messi
previously won this award in 2009 and 2010. He was also a key to Barca in the
Champions League Final 2011 against Manchester United.
Together
Barcelona Messi also won the Spanish League, Spanish Cup, UEFA Super Cup
and the Club World Cup.Devotion
FergusonAlex Ferguson
Alex
Ferguson has won 12 times with Manchester United.
Meanwhile,
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson was awarded devotion to
football.
Ferguson, 70,
received the award directly Sepp Blatter after leading the Red Devils
win the 19th title for United or the to-12 during the regime of
Ferguson.
"I
became the manager were very fortunate to have many good players who can
share our vision and passion., And that's what makes Manchester United
into a special club," said the Scottish manager.
"United always keep
the passion play, keep the courage to continue to try and win," he
added.
Meanwhile, Barcelona
manager Pep Guardiola was asked to be the best managers of 2011.
Another award given was the best scorer of 2011. This award once again
fell into the hands of Lionel Messi and Wayne Rooney together Santor
young star, Neymar.
Next up is the
best female players who belong to Homare Sawa, captain of Japanese women
who won the 2011 world championship.
And, the national team manager Norio Sasaki
Japanese women to be the best women's football manager 2011.
"Original
agreement with Emirates
is one of the key facilitators in moving us from (the old
stadium) Highbury and this is a continuation phase
of our relationship is
important to put us remain
in the UK and European games,"
Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis.
Emirates
first deal to sponsor
Arsenal in 2004, which entitles the carrier to be the name of the club's new stadium until 2021 and the sponsor uniform that began in the 2006 season.
The increase in salaries and the cost to run a football club, the
club was looking for
opportunities and ways to
make money to stay in the game in Europe.
In 2011, Barcelona
signed a sponsorship deal
with the Qatar Foundation
uniform match-with a value of 30 million euros, or
Rp. 374 billion
per year - and the airline
Qatar Airways logo is displayed starting next season.
The deal is the first time for the Barcelona commercial sponsor logo and riled
some fans.
Earlier this year, Manchester
United signed a new agreement with the U.S. car brand Chevrolet
famous for his uniform for seven years.
The agreement will start in 2014, is reported to have a value of at least £ 45 million or nearly USD. 7 billion per season until 2021.
Liverpool signed a deal for £ 80 million or Rp1,
2 trillion, over four years to sponsor the
club uniform with Standard
Chartered in September 2009.
Last
year, Manchester City signed a 10 year agreement with a value of £ 400 million or around
Rp. 6.1 trillion,
with airline Etihad to sponsor
uniforms and stadium name.
