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05/01/2016 (TODAYonline) - Palm oil is cheap to produce and a versatile ingredient in many household products. It is in chocolate, cosmetics and even in soap. The growing demand for this ubiquitous ingredient is putting pressure on our tropical rainforests and contributing to climate change.

05/01/2016 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices moved down by 1.19 per cent to Rs 416.50 per 10 kg in futures trading today as speculators booked profits at prevailing higher levels amid easing demand in the spot market against adequate stocks.

05/01/2016 (Daily Express) - Plantation firms are in dilemma on whether the newly-formed Council for Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) will benefit them or should they ditch the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) standards and adopt new ones.

05/01/2016 (The Star) - Palm oil plantation and healthcare company TDM Bhd has appointed Kamarul Bahrein Kamarulzaman as its group chief executive officer.

04/01/2016 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets

04/01/2016 (Tempo.co) - The national crude palm oil (CPO) industry would face difficult challenge related to prices this year, Indonesian Palm Oil Council (DMSI) chairman Derom Bangun said on Sunday, January 3, 2016.

04/01/2016 (Hindu Business Line) - Coconut farmers are keenly looking for government intervention to get the support price for copra increased as the diminishing market prices pose a severe threat to the profit margins.

04/01/2015 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures edged lower on Thursday to 2,480, on concerns of slowing demand after data showed exports declined.

04/01/2016 (Tempo.co) - Oil palm farmers and companies in the country are feared to be disappointed that their hope of a better year in 2016 was all false.The palm oil market has long been hit by deep slump, and until the end of 2015 there has been no sign that the market would recover in 2016. Worse still, lengthy drought has reduced productivity.

04/01/2016 (Tempo.co) - Deputy Director of palm oil business watchdog Sawit Watch Achmad Surambo estimated that it is very likely that the price of will remain stagnant and be difficult to rise.

04/01/2016 (Tempo.co) - Chief of the Indonesian Farmers Association Henry Saragih predicted that in 2019, prices of several Indonesian export commodities in the international market would be difficult to rise.

04/01/2016 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil posted its biggest annual gain in five years as the strongest El Nino in almost two decades parches crops in Southeast Asia and trims record stockpiles of the commodity used in food and biofuel.