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31 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futuresstretched gains into a fourth day on Friday to hover at overthree-month highs and posting their biggest weekly rise innearly a year, as the tropical oil drew support from projectionsof weaker output and easing stocks.

01/11/2014 (Reuters) - The European Union launched a trade dispute at the World Trade Organization on Friday to challenge Russia's treatment of European exports of agricultural and manufactured goods, the WTO said in a statement.

01/11/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Publicly listed plantation firms reported shining results from their nine-month operations as net profits soared on the back of soaring sales and selling prices.

01/11/2014 (Sun.Star) - Five Malaysian companies are looking at the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) where they can pour in investments for oil palm plantations.

01/11/2014 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 71,642 tonnes of cargo comprising 60,128 tonnes of import cargo and 11,514 tonnes of export cargo including 2,495 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Thursday.

01/11/2014 (The Star) - Chin Teck Plantations Bhd posted net profit of RM11.2mil in the fourth quarter ended Aug 31, 2014 due to an improvement in the selling prices of crude palm oil and palm kernel and from its Indonesian operations.

01/11/2014 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 128,270 tonnes of cargo comprising 110,621 tonnes of import cargo and 17,649 tonnes of export cargo including 5,359 loaded and empty containers during the last 24 hours ending at 0700 hours on Friday. The total import cargo of 110,621 tonnes comprised of 48,328 tonnes of containerised cargo; 18,635 tonnes of bulk cargo: 15,181 tonnes of coal; 2,724 tonnes of wheat; 730 tonnes of DAP and 43,658 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

01/11/2014 (Bernama) - Asean environment ministers are looking forward to Indonesia depositing the instrument of ratification of the Asean Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution, which came into force in 2003.

01/11/2014 (Reuters) - Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

31/10/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose to a more than three-month high on Thursday, driven by big gains in comparative soy markets as well as optimism that growing food consumption amid weakening palm output will underpin prices into next year.

31/10/2014 (Reuters)- The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

31/10/2014 (Bernama) - The five-day Agricultural Marketing and Investment Mission (AMIM)to Dubai which ended today, succeeded in recording potential sales of about RM60 million, surpassing the preliminary target of RM45 million.