Archived News

02/06/2014 (The Star)- BLD Plantation Bhd will be able to optimise the conversion of empty oil palm fruit bunches into fertilizer when the two incinerators are scheduled to be operational in the second half of this year.

02/06/2014 (The Star) - Companies may continue to struggle to live up to the market’s still lofty earnings projections after a dismal start to the year, leading to analysts lowering their expectations.

02/06/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Provident Agro, one of Indonesia’s publicly listed plantation companies, expects to raise about Rp 33.41 billion (US$2.87 million) from the company’s rights shares offering next month.

02/06/2014 (Jakarta Post) - Supported by favorable export taxation to attract investment, Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, has the potential to become the production base for several downstream palm oil products, stakeholders say.

02/06/2014 (The Star) - Companies may continue to struggle to live up to the market’s still lofty earnings projections after a dismal start to the year, leading to analysts lowering their expectations.

02/06/2014 (Daily News & Analysis) - Promoters to focus on subsequent right issue so that funds raised will go to the debt-ridden company

31//05/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures on Friday slid to their lowest in over seven months, following soyoil prices down and recording their biggest monthly loss in nearly two years.

31/05/2014 (ANTARA News) - Indonesia is targeting Algeria to increase its non-oil/gas exports, and other markets in North Africa and the Middle East by participating in the International Fair of Algeria.

31/05/2014 (Manila Buletin) - The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has posted economic investments amounting to P1.621 billion this year, surpassing the P1.463 billion recorded in the region for the whole of 2013, the ARMM’s Regional Board of Investment (RBOI) announced yesterday.

31/05/2014 (Reuters) - Friday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1600 GMT.

31/05/2014 (The News International) - The Sindh government has entered into negotiations with a Malaysian company for the cultivation of palm oil plantations on five hectors land in the province, as both the provincial and federal governments have been taking keen interest in the new cultivation project.

31/05/2014 (Daily Express) - Sawit Kinabalu the biggest state-owned oil palm plantation is ready to extensively plant its own cloned material to further boost its oil palm production.