Archived News

06/11/2012 (Energy Business Review) - Malaysian company BBC Biogas has signed an agreement to construct a plant in Sarawak employing the technology of Japan-based Kubota Corporation.

06/11/2012 (Jakarta Post) - State-owned diversified group PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia (RNI) has earmarked a Rp 3 trillion (US$312 million) investment for expansion activities next year.

06/11/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - As many as 10 investors have expressed interest in putting trillions of rupiah into Indonesia’s Sei Mangkei special economic zone in North Sumatra, a high level official at the Industry Ministry has said.

05/11/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Indonesia's economy is seen growing at its slowest pace in two years in the third quarter, as the global downturn finally catches up with a country whose resilience has made it a magnet for foreign investors this year.

05/11/2012 (Borneo Post) - The state’s manufacturing sector is expected to undergo significant changes in the coming years through industrial sub-sectors such as food processing, palm oil, petrochemicals, advanced ceramics and biotechnology.

05/11/2012 (Borneo Post) - Soppoa (Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners Association) is strongly against the proposal by SPIKPA (Skim Perlindungan Insurans Kesihatan Perkeja Asing) to implement insurance scheme for foreign workers.

05/11/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - In what is widely seen as a belated response to the fiscal incentives granted by the world’s largest palm oil producer, Indonesia, to promote refined oils export, Malaysia has decided to do away with tax-free quotas for crude palm oil and introduce a new export tax structure that is set to take effect from January 1.

05/11/2012 (Daily Star) - The new export policy will ban exports of rice, sugar, soybean oil and palm oil.

05/11/2012 (Bloomberg) - Gains from a share sale of Bumitama Agri (BAL) Ltd., an Indonesian palm oil producer, and the growth of mining in Southeast Asia’s largest economy have made Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono a billionaire.

05/11/2012 (Bloomberg) - India, the biggest palm oil buyer, needs to impose a duty on imports to protect oilseed growers from cheaper overseas supplies as a surge in inventories in Southeast Asia lowers prices.

05/11/2012 (Bernama) - The Sarawak Oil Palm Plantation Owners' Association, comprising over 80 plantation proprietors in the state, is asking the government to seriously reconsider implementation of the Foreign Workers' Health Insurance Protection Scheme from Jan 1 next year.

05/11/2012 (Borneo Post) - The forests inhabited by the elephants in the Kinabatangan are shrinking because they are converted for agriculture such as palm oil plantations.