Archived News

29/11/2011 (Economic Times) - Rupee depreciation against the US dollar is unlikely to hit bilateral trade between India and Malaysia, a senior Malaysian trade official said today.

28/11/2011 (The Star) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) grouping has described its recently concluded 9th Annual Roundtable Meeting (RT9) as a success given the growing number of its members as well as the record attendance of about 1,000 delegates at the international sustainable palm oil event.

28/11/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - Life was idyllic in the village of Muara Tae, in East Kalimantan’s West Kutai district — before palm oil companies moved in, Petrus Asuy says.

28/11/2011 (Vanguard) - Nature abhors waste and so every material on earth is useful. Man can only say a material is useless when he has not found the means of converting it to something useful. Author Richard Dawkins rightly said: “Nature is a miserly accountant, grudging the pennies, watching the clock, punishing the smallest extravagance.”

28/11/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - Slowing overseas demand for Indonesian goods is the latest issue for the country’s exporters, even as the rupiah depreciates to a level that favors their businesses.

28/11/2011 (AsiaOne) - The government is looking to lure foreign direct investments through public-private partnerships in biofuel facilities that will aim for the European market.

28/11/2011 (Vanguard) - Driven by losses on the share prices of majority of the blue-chip companies, the value of listed equities on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, NSE, depreciated last week by N59.59 billion.

27/11/2011 (Vanguard) - The Malaysian High Commissioner to Nigeria , Nik Mustapha Kamal Nik Ahmad, is optimistic that with greater and concerted efforts by all, the Nigeria-Malaysia Business Council, bilateral relations would experience a qualitative change.

27/11/2011 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible and non-edible oil prices held steady in the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today, with the exception of palmolein oil, which gained Rs 20 per quintal on some demand.

27/11/2011 (Jakarta Post) - The government says that a global risk analysis and mapping company has compiled a “misleading” report claiming that the rate of deforestation in Indonesia was one of the worst in the world.

27/11/2011 (MSN) - Snapping a two-week gaining streak, edible oil prices drifted South in the wholesale oils and oilseeds market during the past week as demand dropped at prevailing higher levels amid a weak trend overseas.

27/11/2011 (Daily Times) - Two ships arrived at Port Qasim on Friday carrying container at QICT, cement at MW-04. Berth occupancy was maintained at 50 percent at the Port on Friday where a total of seven ships are currently occupying berths to load/offload rice, container, canola seed, sunflower seed, palm oil and furnace oil was handled at Port last 24 hours.