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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures dipped on Tuesday evening, hitting their lowest in a week and tracking overnight losses in related edible oils such as soyoil on the U.S. Chicago Board of Trade and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange.

KUALA LUMPUR (April 24): Malaysian palm oil futures dipped on Tuesday evening, hitting their lowest in a week and tracking overnight losses in related edible oils such as soyoil on the U.S. Chicago Board of Trade and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange.

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Buyers are wrong to remove palm oil from their products and should instead focus on working with sustainability schemes and smallholder farmers, an Indonesia-based conservation organization said on Tuesday.

JAKARTA — Oil palm farmers in Indonesia are mounting a legal challenge to get a bigger share of a government fund they complain is being misused to subsidize biofuel producers.

Iceland has been slated by campaign groups over its decision earlier this month to ban palm oil from its supply chain.

KUALA LUMPUR: The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Tuesday April 24.

Crude palm oil prices fell 0.34 per cent to Rs 643.20 per 10 kgs in futures trade today as speculators booked profits at prevailing higher levels amid fall in demand at spot market.

Malaysian palm oil futures ended lower on fears of slowing demand and losses in other related oils.

The country's palm oil exports, excluding biodiesel and oleochemical products, declined to 2.37 million tons in February, or 14 percent less than the 2.74 million tons exported in January, the Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (Gapki) has said.

KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - A graphic being circulated on social media has the Chinese flag planted all over a map of Peninsular Malaysia, suggesting that Red China has taken over our land.

Supermarket chain Iceland has been criticised by campaigners after deciding to ban palm oil from its own products by the end of 2018.

KUALA LUMPUR: Beijing's anti-dumping move last week on U.S. sorghum imports could open an opportunity for Malaysia to sell palm kernel cake to China as an alternative animal feed, Malaysia's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) said.