Archived News
11-03-2014
Mars Launches New Policies On Palm Oil And Deforestation
11/03/2014 (PRNewswire) - Mars, Incorporated announced today a new policy to help build a fully sustainable palm oil supply chain. This sees Mars commit to both industry leading standards and develop a fully traceable pipeline back to known palm oil processing mills by year-end 2014. Mars Logo.
11-03-2014
Global Food Price Hike Will Not Impact Nigeria Negatively, Says FG
11/03/2014 (THISDAY Live) - The federal government weekend stated that there was no cause for panic over the recent significant rise in the price of food globally.
11-03-2014
China Worries Batter KLCI, Key Asian Markets
11/03/2014 (The Star) - Worries about a slowdown in China's economy battered key Asian markets and Malaysian equities, sending all the key indices into the red.
11-03-2014
OCBC Sees More Favourable Trade Balance This Year
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp sees Malaysia's trade balance to be more favourable this year as exports are staging a more significant recovery on the back of improving global outlook.
11-03-2014
Malaysia Generates RM638.9 Million Sales At Gulfood
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Gulfood, one of the biggest annual food and hospitality trade show in Dubai saw Malaysia's largest participation with 70 companies, including 29 companies making inroads into the market for the first time.
11-03-2014
February Palm Oil Stocks Fall 14.25 Per Cent To 1.65 Million Tonnes
11/03/2014 (Bernama) - Palm oil stocks fell 14.25 per cent to 1.65 million tonnes in February 2014 from 1.93 million tonnes in January 2014, said the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB).
11-03-2014
Rotterdam Vegetable Oil Prices
11/03/2014 (Business Recorder) - Monday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.
11-03-2014
Mixed Trend in Edible Oils
11/03/2014 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils ruled mixed on Monday with cautious activities amid thin volatility in domestic futures markets. Malaysian palm oil futures extended gain on expectation of higher demand and lower output.
10-03-2014
Crude Palm Oil Weekly Report 2 March 2014
10/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose 3.07 percent for the week on Friday, with prices boosted by a combination of gains in comparative vegetable oils and expectations that dry weather may hurt production.
10-03-2014
Sugar Rallying With Cooking Oil for Merchant Fund on Less Supply
10/03/2014 (Bloomberg) - Sugar and cooking oil prices will extend a rally as dry weather from South America to Asia parches crops, said Doug King, Chief Investment Officer of the $145 million Merchant Commodity Fund.
10-03-2014
Small-scale Farmers in State Urged to Grow More Crops
10/03/2014 (Borneo Post) - Small-scale farmers in the state are urged to cultivate and produce more than one commodity.
10-03-2014
Sarawak Plans to Sell CPO in Middle East
10/03/2014 (The Star) - Sarawak has identified the Middle East as the potential new market for its palm oil products.