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04/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Indonesia, the world’s largest producer of palm oil, has launched an internationally backed nationwide program to improve the livelihoods of small-scale oil palm growers by helping them obtain national certification for sustainable practices.

04/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - India and Indonesia need to further promote their bilateral relations to help revive their declining trade activities.

04/10/2014 (The Star) - The impact from the imposition of zero export duty on crude palm oil (CPO) by Malaysia, and more recently Indonesia, has been gradually reflected in the current CPO price, which has gained some ground after falling to a five-year low last month.

04/10/2014 (The Star) - Malaysia’s blue chips held on to most of their gains at midday on Friday, with the FBM KLCI underpinned by gains in Petronas Gas and MISC, while the broader market was mixed.

04/10/2014 (Business Times) - FELDA Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV), which has a multimodal transport operator (MTO) licence, wants to ramp up its transport and logistics business to complement its plantation business.

04/10/2014 (Business Standard) - Following are the opening prices of oilseeds, cakes, raw oils and refined oils here today.

03/10/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures slipped to their lowest in more than a week on Thursday, reversing gains in the morning session after crude prices dropped to a 27-month low and the ringgit climbed higher, curbing appetite for the tropical oil.

03/10/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Friday.

03/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - The government plans to revise its export target in the 2014 fiscal year from US$190 billion to $180.5 billion because of the decreasing price of crude palm oil (CPO), Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi said.

03/10/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Plantation industry players breathed a sigh of relief as the House of Representatives canceled a plan to cap foreign ownership in local plantation firms at 30 percent.

03/10/2014 (3BL Media) - Mars says 57 percent of the palm oil it sources can be traced back to a known mill in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and Thailand, as of as of Aug. 31.

03/10/2014 (Mashable) - In Egypt, a country where fuel shortages and price hikes are common, it seems unthinkable that millions of gallons of usable fuel would literally be poured down the drain