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05/09/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil rose to a one-week top on Thursday, gaining for a third straight session as strong end-user demand drove prices higher after the market slid to its lowest since 2009 earlier this week.

05/09/2014 (The Star) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Friday.

05/09/2014 (Bernama) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures prices on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives climbed for the third consecutive day, crossing above RM2,000 per tonne as buying interest emerged and short-covering activities lifted prices higher.

05/09/2014 (Bernama) - The move taken by the government to cope with rising crude palm oil (CPO) inventory and falling prices is not sufficient to boost the commodity's prices significantly higher, said Hong Leong Investment Bank (HLIB).

05/09/2014 (Bernama) - Malaysia's famous cartoonist Datuk Mohammed Nor Khalid and Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Director-General Datuk Dr Choo Yuen May were among six recipients of the prestigous Merdeka Awards this year.

05/09/2014 (Reuters) - Thursday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

05/09/2014 (Reuters) - Indonesian palm oil companies, among the world's biggest, are rushing to bump up capacity to produce higher-value chemicals made from the vegetable oil by as much as a third, hoping to escape the paper-thin margins in their refining business

05/09/2014 (THISDAY Live) - The half 2014 results recently released by Okomu Oil Palm Company Plc showed that the company is reaping the benefits of its ongoing cost curtailment program, a report has stated.

05/09/2014 (Oxford Business Group) - Concerns in Sarawak over a short-term decline in the price of crude palm oil (CPO), exacerbated by an increase in local production, are being eased by the prospects of CPO being used in national and international biofuel initiatives. However, doubts have been raised over the impact the programmes will have on the region’s vital CPO industry.

05/09/2014 (Ghanaweb) - Ghana has missed three separate opportunities to export crude palm oil (CPO), tuna and aluminium ingots to Turkey this year under circumstances that cast doubts on the country's preparedness to properly diversify exports and increase earnings from the sector.

05/09/2014 (Platts) - US biodiesel imports reached a 2014 year-to-date record in July of 69,474 mt, breaking the prior record -- set in March -- of 33,330 mt, according to US Census Bureau data released Thursday.

04/09/2014 (The Star) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets on Wednesday.