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07/06/2013 (Business Times) - THE current French position on palm oil trade is neither free nor fair and, in fact, it is unjust, said National Association of Smallholders (Nash) president Datuk Aliasak Ambia.

07/06/2013 (Bernama) - Pakistan businesses should make Malaysia their central point for market access into Asean and Far East countries, says Consul-General of Malaysia in Karachi, Pakistan, Abu Bakar Mamat.

07/06/2013 (Feed Machinery) - A Match-Making platform to boost growth & development of Myanmar agriculture & livestock sector

07/06/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysia's total trade in April grew by 2.5 per cent to RM110.67 billion, compared with the same month a year ago, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) said today.

06/06/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended higher on Wednesday, pulling away from an earlier near two-week low, as investors turned more optimistic on stocks data due early next week.

06/06/2013 (The Standard Digital News) - A Malaysian manufacturer is setting up a multi-billion-shilling palm oil refinery in Nairobi to target the fast-growing East African consumer market.

06/06/2013 (The Star) - Malaysian oil palm smallholders have written to the French foreign trade minister, asking for her commitment that France will not discriminate against palm oil.

06/06/2013 (Business Mirror) - A militant farmers’ group on Wednesday hit the reported plan of one of tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan’s business units to establish a 30,000-hectare palm-oil plantation in Davao Oriental province, describing it as “a black eye” to the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP).

06/06/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Soyabean refined oil rose in domestic futures market on Wednesday, tracking the higher closing of Malaysian palm oil futures. While slack demand pulled soyabean and cotton refined oil down in physical markets by Re 1 each, groundnut oil fell by a further Rs 10 in line with bearish trends in Saurashtra. Sunflower, rapeseed and palmolein ruled steady.

06/06/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil fell to the lowest in almost two weeks after a survey showed that output in Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer, climbed for a third straight month in May and exports declined.

06/06/2013 (Daily Times) - Pakistan and Malaysia have to find new areas of mutual cooperation and try to further boost trade and economic ties.

06/06/2013 (New Straits Times) - A gathering of oil palm industry players for a conference here next week will help keep the momentum for continued growth in the sector in Sabah.