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21/08/2012 (Radio Australia) - Lower commodity prices are taking their toll on the Pacific, with export growth down sharply in many economies, according to the ANZ Bank.

21/08/2012 (The Nation) - People have destroyed and occupied over 10,000 rai of protected peat bogs in Phatthalung, which have been burning for a month, to clear land for a large oil palm plantation, the state environmental watchdog said yesterday.

21/08/2012 (OregonLive.com) - Some of the world's top experts in orangutans and conservation of the primates' habitats are meeting at the Oregon Zoo this week for a Species Survival Plan workshop.

21/08/2012 (Borneo Post) - Oil palm plantation owners in Kinabatangan have been urged to fulfill their promises to ensure that river pollution problems caused by factory discharge are solved immediately.

20/08/2012 (What's on Xiamen) - IOI Group, the second largest palm oil producer and one of top 3 developers in Malaysia by market capitalization, made palm oil processing plans in Xiamen on Aug 14.

20/08/2012 (The Star) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures market is expected to be quiet this week but prices will be dictated by exports and encouraging economic outlook.

20/08/2012 (Business Recorder) - A cargo volume of 88,323 tonnes comprising 74,538 tonnes of import cargo and 13,785 tonnes of export cargo inclusive 2,738 loaded & empty containers (TEUs) was handled at Port Qasim during last 24 hours on Saturday.

20/08/2012 (Reuters) - In the two minutes it takes to read this story, an area the size of 60 football pitches will have been clear-cut by illegal loggers globally, according to Chatham House, an independent policy institute in London.

18/08/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures rose on Friday to their highest in more than two weeks as investor optimism returned on recovering exports and the outlook for the euro zone debt crisis brightened.

18/08/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Indigenous edible oil extended gain on Friday in line with firm trend producing level due to tight supply and higher demand.

18/08/2012 (Shanghai Daily) - Local businessmen here and investors from Netherlands and the Middle East are building a large biodiesel factory at a cost of 165 million U.S. dollars to turn grease trap oil and used cooking oil into biodiesel by using the world's leading technology.

18/08/2012 (The Hindu) - The department of Agriculture and Cooperation as part of national agriculture action plan is drawing an action plan of its own to increase the production of oilseeds, pulses, maize, and oil palm under the Centrally sponsored ‘Integrated Scheme of Oil Seeds, Pulses, Oil Palm and Maize (Isopom).