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21/04/2011 (Reuters) - Beauty company Avon Products, Inc. is the first in the industry to commit to 100 percent certified sustainable palm oil.

20/04/2011 (Bernama) - The initiatives by the Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council (GSIAC) for Malaysia to be established on May 17 in New York, is expected to result in a "big win" for the nation come 2013, as local companies transform to become global players.

21/04/2011 (Business Standard) - Palmolein and soyabean oil prices rose by Rs 20 per quintal in the wholesale oils and oilseeds market today on fresh buying by millers amid a firming global trend.

21/04/2011 (IBNLive.com) - The increasing agricultural output in the country will go a long way in reducing the inflation levels in the country, National Co-operative Consumers Federation (NCCF) Chairman, Virendra Singh said here. NCCF functions under the administrative control of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution

20/04/2011 (The Malaysian Insider) - Consumption of crude palm oil (CPO) in Indonesia, the world’s top producer, will rise by about 80 per cent to 18.7 million tonnes by 2015, due to greater demand from downstream industries, a government official said.

20/04/2011 (The Star) - Much of the 70 million tonnes of oil palm biomass produced annually is burnt or left to rot.

20/04/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil production will increase in 2011, boosting tight supplies, researcher Oil World said in a report today.

20/04/2011 (Business Times) - Palm oil dropped on concern that increasing supplies from Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s largest growers, may boost cooking oil inventories.

20/04/2011 (Khaleej Times) - Malaysian crude palm oil companies eye the UAE in particular, the GCC countries and the Middle East in general for their better trading partners.

20/04/2011 (ABC Online) - Three of Australia's major zoos say providing better labelling for palm oil will lay the foundations for saving the world's orangutan populations.

20/04/2011 (Bernama)-- MIDF Research has reiterated its positive call on the plantation sector while maintaining the mean crude palm oil (CPO) price at RM3,400 per metric tonne this year.

20/04/2011 (Borneo Post) - All earthwork activities in POIC Lahad Datu will only commence if the environmental impact assessment (EIA) is approved, said Industrial Development Minister Datuk Raymond Tan