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10/05/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysia's total trade in March rose 1.6 per cent to RM114.94 billion, compared with the same month a year ago, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Miti) said Wednesday.

10/05/2013 (Bernama) - MIDF Research Sdn Bhd expects the drag on Malaysia's exports to continue to remain weak in the coming months.

10/05/2013 (Bernama) - Sawipac Sdn Bhd, one of the grant recipients of the government's Commercialisation of Research and Development (R&D) Fund under Malaysia Technology Development Corporation (MTDC), will invest RM300 million to build an integrated palm oil complex in Riau, Indonesia.

10/05/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Barring cotton refined oil, which rose by Rs 3 for 10 kg, tracking firm reports from producing centres, all other edible oils ruled unchanged on Thursday on lack of demand.

10/05/2013 (Jakarta Globe) - Palm oil planters have denounced a two-year forest-clearing moratorium that ends this month, saying it has throttled palm oil production and are urging the government against its extension.

10/05/2013 (Business Insider) - The world is hungry for palm oil, but as the biggest producer countries run out of viable land for planting palm trees, the production landscape is shifting.

10/05/2013 (7thSpace Interactive) - Chicken meat nutritional value with regard to fatty acid composition and selenium content depends on the choice of dietary oil and selenium level used in the chickens'feed. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of replacing commonly used rendered animal fat as a dietary source of saturated fatty acids and soybean oil as a source of unsaturated fatty acids, with palm oil and red palm oil in combinations with rapeseed oil, linseed oil and two levels of selenium enriched yeast on chicken breast meat nutritional value.

09/05/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures rose to a one-week high on Wednesday, pulling away from near five-month lows plumbed earlier in the week, as investors eyed a potential fall in stocks in the world's second-largest producer of the edible oil.

09/05/2013 (Jakarta Post) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a non-profit promoting sustainable palm production, says it will give financial aid to smallholders seeking certification.

09/05/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysia's April palm oil stocks likely fell to their lowest in nine months, with domestic consumption and lower exports outstripping a rise in output, a Reuters survey of five plantation companies showed on Tuesday.

09/05/2013 (Daily Mirror) - The price of the world’s most-used cooking oil, palm oil, is expected to remain volatile, given the high stock levels in Malaysia and Indonesia, a top official of a leading Malaysian oil palm cultivating company stated.

09/05/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Imported palmolein ruled unchanged on third consecutive day while soyabean refined oil lost Rs 5 for 10 kg. But in domestic futures market, soya oil rose by more than Rs 5 tracking firm Malaysian palm oil futures and reduced arrivals in producing centre – Madhya Pradesh. Rapeseed and cotton refined oil declined by Rs 2 and Re 1 each. Groundnut and sunflower oil were steady.