Archived News

17/06/02011 (The Star) - Credit Suisse revising global prices upward on rising price of grain.

17/06/2011 (Bernama) - African nations attending the Langkawi International Dialogue 2011 can use Malaysia's transformational leadership initiatives and transformational policies to tailor-make their own policies to suit their domestic needs to tackle head-on global challenges and new realities.

17/06/2011 (Borneo Post) - BioFusion Sdn Bhd walked away with RM200,000 cash prize for winning 2011 Best Innovation in Biotechnology and Agro Technology in the country.

17/06/2011 (Ninemsn) - Two Senate crossbenchers have condemned both major parties for rejecting a move designed to help protect orangutans in South-East Asia.

16/06/2011 (Sin Chew Jit Poh) - Everyone knows that the raw material used to produce papers is timber. When environmental protection was first promoted many years ago, paper recycling instantly became the common and standard practice.

16/06/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil advanced after a recent slump in prices widened the discount to soybean oil to the highest in almost three years, increasing the appeal of the tropical oil for food uses.

16/06/2011 (The Engineer) - Specially adapted palm kernel oil could be used to insulate electrical transformers, thereby proving a more environmentally sound alternative to current silicone-based oils.

16/06/2011 (Financial Express) - Vegetable oil imports by India, the biggest user after China, may accelerate in the next three to four months as domestic supplies slow, a processors’ group said. Purchases in May climbed 19% to 6,64,133 tonne from a year earlier, the first gain in seven months, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India said in a statement. Imports in the seven months ended May 31 declined 12 % to 4.27 million tonne from a year earlier, it said.

16/06/2011 (Jakarta Post) - Indonesia and the European Union (EU) have agreed to commence talks on an “ambitious” free trade agreement (FTA), as both parties seek to boost two-way trade and the EU's investments in Indonesia.

16/06/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - In December 2007, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono launched Indonesia’s orangutan conservation strategy and action plan, which calls for all wild orangutan populations to be viable and stable by 2017.

16/06/2011 (Business Day) - The ongoing debate on the possible impact the drive for biofuel will have on food security should be of enthusiastic interest to us in Nigeria. This is so because currently, we are faced with the task of ensuring that we are food secured. Production of biofuel will eat deep into Nigeria's present stock of food crops such as grains, vegetable oil, sugarcane, cassava and so on.

16/06/2011 (Borneo Post) - Crude palm oil (CPO) industry players are expected to see the start of a new cyclical downtrend for CPO prices, after two consecutive years of being on a year-on- year uptrend.