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06/04/2013 (The Star) - Malaysia's February exports fell 7.7% to RM52.46bil from a year ago, due to the shorter working days and the festive season, the Statistics Department said.

06/04/2013 (Huffington Post) - The brutal 'War Against Nature' has nearly annihilated the Sumatran and Borneo elephants. And the prime culprit causing habitat loss is the rapacious and insatiable Indonesian palm oil plantation industry.

05/04/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures inched lower on Thursday, tracking weakness in competing soy markets, with many investors preferring to stay on the sidelines ahead of key industry data due next week.

05/04/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil exports from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer, jumped to the highest level in at least five years in February after China and Pakistan boosted purchases to benefit from a slump in prices.

05/04/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil fell as crude oil traded near the lowest price in more than a week on rising stockpiles in the U.S., reducing the appeal of biofuels.

05/04/2013 (PRNewswire) - Research and Markets announces the addition of AOCS Press' book "Palm Oil: Production, Processing, Characterization, and Use" to its catalogue.

05/04/2013 (Proactive Investors UK) - Palm oil specialist DekelOil (LON:DKL) breaks the mould for a new AIM float: it is fully funded and has a clear and quick route to cash generative profitability.

05/04/2013 (The Liverpool Post) - Businesses are increasingly attempting to portray themselves as ethically good, but can they ever be purely altruistic, or is there inevitably a profit motive behind all decision or actions they take?.

05/04/2013 (CosmeticsDesign-Europe.com) - The Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant is taking further steps towards its Sustainable Living Plan after announcing that more than a third of its raw materials are now sourced sustainably.

05/04/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils continued to rise in the oils and oilseeds market on Thursday. Soyabean refined oil shot up by Rs 10 for 10 kg as a refinery raised rates. Cotton and rapeseed oils jumped by Rs 5 and Rs 3, respectively.

05/04/2013 (Pique Newsmagazine) - A while back Mieke Prummel suggested I investigate the best oil to use. Mieke would say \"a while back\" is stretching it, but the more I research, the more complexities arise, from health to enviro issues, so I haven\'t come up with any definitive answers. Then it was Palm Sunday. The Saturday night before — call it Palm Sunday Eve — was Earth Hour. You know, when we\'re all supposed to turn off our electricity for an hour in an effort cynics charge is too earnest for words. (Vancouver Island, BTW, outshot Metro Vancouver, once named Earth Hour Capital by World Wildlife Fund. Courtenay and Comox were B.C.\'s leaders, using 10 per cent less power. But Whistler was no slouch, at seven per cent less; Pemberton came in at 5.9 per cent. The Big Smoke? It embarrassingly came in at 2.4 per cent less.)

05/04/2013 (Bloomberg) - Okomu Oil Palm Plc (OKOMUOIL) of Nigeria rose to the highest on record after it announced a plan to pay dividends and bonuses to shareholders, according to Lambeth Trust & Investment Co.