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27/11/2014 (The Star) - The National Association of Smallholders (Nash) wants Belgium to stop the illegal No Palm Oil labels in that country which directly harm small farmers in the developing world, including in Malaysia.

27/11/2014 (Daily Express) - Malaysian oil palm plantations lose about US$500 million (about RM1,600 million) a year to a devastating disease known as Basal Stem Rot (BSR) or in plain language, cancer of oil palm, caused by Ganoderma boninense, with no remedy reported so far.

27/11/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Thursday.

26/11/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose on Tuesday, pulling away from a near one-month low as jitters about a projected increase in crude palm oil production in November faded in the second half of the session.

26/11/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

26/11/2014 (Bernama) - Malaysia will continue to invest and collaborate with major international research institutions to further promote the use of palm oil in new areas.

26/11/2014 (Globe Newswire) - IOI Loders Croklaan introduced a new and strengthened Sustainable Palm Oil Policy, which supersedes its existing policy and further ensures:

26/11/2014 (Reuters) - Monday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

26/11/2014 (Bloomberg) - Soybean, rapeseed and palm oil prices as well as those for oil and meal crushed from oilseeds are forecast to slide in the year through June amid ample supplies, industry analyst Oil World said.

26/11/2014 (Reuters) - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co LP and Bunge Agribusiness Singapore Pte Ltd, have expressed interest in buying 88 percent shares of PT Golden Plantation, a unit of PT Tiga Pilar Sejahtera (TPS) Food Tbk, Investor Daily reported, citing TPS Food's Finance Director, Sjambiri Lioe.

26/11/2014 (The Star) - RAM Rating Services expects crude palm oil (CPO) price to average between RM2,100 and RM2,300 a tonne as record vegetable oil production will continue to suppress CPO prices.

26/11/2014 (Reuters) - A prolonged fall in the price of palm oil is hitting Indonesia’s legions of smallholder farmers, forcing cutbacks that will reduce output in coming years and raising the prospect of a bout of sell-outs to major producers.