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23/07/2012 (Mongabay.com) - Indonesia's top official charged with implementing the country's moratorium on new concessions in peatlands and primary forest areas is calling for an investigation into alleged violations by a palm oil company operating in Central Kalimantan, reports the REDD+ Task Force.

23/07/2012 (Business Times) - Malaysia may soon risk losing investments in the palm oil refining industry to neighbouring Indonesia if it does not come up with a policy to create a level playing field.

23/07/2012 (Jakarta Post) - Indonesia has again become a victim of its own bitter medicine as trade partners begin to respond to the country’s protectionist policies — the latest being India’s decision to raise import taxes on refined palm oil.

23/07/2012 (The Star) - Not many people paid heed to tocotrienols 30 years ago, but of late, the scientific community just can’t seem to get enough of it.

23/07/2012 (The Star) - RHB Research Institute is maintaining its Neutral call on the plantations sector with the crude palm oil (CPO) price assumptions of RM3,100 a tonne for CY2012.

21/07/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended lower on Friday, as expectations of higher palm oil stocks in Malaysia offset concerns over crop-damaging weather in the U.S. Midwest that lowered soybean oil supply.

21/07/2012 (Reuters) - Exports of palm oil from Indonesia, the world's biggest grower of the edible oil, are likely to drop after top consumer India effectively doubled import taxes on refined products, in a move that could also push rival Malaysia to overhaul taxes.

21/07/2012 (Manila Bulettin) - The leaders of the oil palm industry in the Philippines are deploring the apparent lack of interest of the government in encouraging oil palm production in the country.

21/07/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oil prices shot up by more than Rs 10 on revision of tariff value on imported RBD Palmolien by Government.

21/07/2012 (Ghana) - As Ghana's finest athletes head for London to compete in the Olympic Games, British Prime Minister David Cameron is preparing to host a 'Hunger Summit' during the Games to discuss how private sector investment can help improve global access to food and nutrition.

21/07/2012 (FINCAD News) - Geneva-based commodities broker SCB Group, which is also known as Starsupply, wants to open a Singapore branch in either the second or third quarter of 2013, which will initially have the purpose of broking commodity swaps contracts involving crude palm oil.

21/07/2012 (Financial Express) - Prices of almost all essential items went up in the city's kitchen market before the day of the holy month of Ramadan that starts from today (Saturday).