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22/02/2012 (Jakarta Post) - PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk (AALI), Indonesia’s largest listed palm oil producer, recorded production of 98,042 tons of crude palm oil (CPO) in the first month of this year, up 6.4 percent from the same period a year ago.

22/02/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended up on Tuesday after touching an eight-month high the previous day, supported by a Greek bailout deal and stronger demand prospects indicated by Malaysian export trends.

21/02/2012 (The Star) - Palm oil milling is far from benign, but the industry is frantically conducting research to realise low-emission technologies. The zero-discharge plant is one such bold concept.

21/02/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures closed off an eight-month high on Monday, as China\'s policy easing buoyed sentiment, while an improvement in demand prospects and technical outlook also provided support.

21/02/2012 (The Star) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures price hit RM3,260 per tonne, the highest in more than eight months but finished short of the intraday high buoyed by higher soy bean prices.

21/02/2012 (Jakarta Post) - Palm oil advanced to the highest level in more than eight months as soybeans climbed last week after China, the largest importer, purchased a record amount of the oilseed from the United States.

21/02/2012 (Business Recorder) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products for February 1-20 fell 2 percent to 783,112 tonnes from 799,210 tonnes shipped during January 1-20, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Monday.

21/02/2012 (Bernama) - Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok has given an assurance that biodiesel B5 is safe for use in fishing boat engines.

21/02/2012 (Jakarta Post) - PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk (AALI), Indonesia’s biggest listed palm oil producer, recorded 98,042 tons crude palm oil (CPO) production in the first month of this year, up 6.4 percent from the same period a year ago.

21/02/2012 (Daily Times) - Cooking oil and ghee industry is unable to manufacture its commodities as the entire industry is shutting down with immediate effect.

21/02/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysia's CB Industrial Product Holdings scores highly on valuation and earnings quality signals among the 23 stocks in the country's industrials sector, data from Thomson Reuters StarMine shows.

21/02/2012 (The Star) - Bursa Malaysia has stopped the trading in Green Ocean Corp Bhd's shares less than half an hour before the market closed due to unusual market activity earlier in the day.