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10/11/2016 (Bernama) - Bilateral trade between Malaysia and China hit RM170.6 billion in the first nine months of the year, up 1.3 per cent when compared with the same period a year ago.

10/11/2016 (Reuters) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), an industry group that promotes environmentally sustainable cultivation of the oil, has promised to revamp its complaints system, a non-governmental group said on Wednesday.

10/11/2016 (New Straits Times) - Malaysia will raise the current B7 mandate to B10 next month, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong.

10/11/2016 (Business Standard) - Prices of palmolein fell further by Rs 50 per quintal at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today owing to slackened demand from retailers and vanaspati millers.

10/11/2016 (Tempo.co) - Indonesian Palm Oil Association (Gapki) chariman Joko Supriyono said that CPO makes of the most of Indonesian’s commodity exports, putting it in a strategic position.

10/11/2016 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices fell 0.83 per cent to Rs 515 per 10 kg in futures trade today as speculators booked profits at prevailing higher levels amid fall in demand in spot market.

09/11/2016 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

11/09/2016 (Reuters) - The following were Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT:

09/11/2016 (Bernama) - Felda Global Venture Holdings Bhd (FGV) is planning to undertake a two-year forest conservation programme in collaboration with the Sabah Forestry Department (SFD), says Group President/Chief Executive Officer Datuk Zakaria Arshad.

09/11/2016 (Bernama) - Malaysia and the Netherlands will work together to strengthen their bilateral trade and collaboration in commodity-based products.

09/11/2016 (Bernama) - The Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Malaysia, YB Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong, received a courtesy call from the newly appointed Ambassador of the Kingdom of The Netherlands to Malaysia, H.E. Karin Mossenlechner at his office on 7 November 2016.

09/11/2016 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil is forecast to replace iron ore as Liberia’s leading export and employ more than 100,000 people in an economy that was ravaged by a commodity price slump and the worst-ever Ebola outbreak, according to a government official.