Archived News

30/06/2010 (Bernama) - US-BASED public policy research institute, the Heritage Foundation, has chided the World Bank for its plans to revise its strategy for future development assistance in the palm oil sector.

29/06/2010 (Business Times) - CRUDE palm oil (CPO) futures prices on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives closed higher yesterday on steadier demand, dealers said.

29/06/2010 (Business Times) - OIL PALM ramets produced through the tissue culture process by TSH Biotech Sdn Bhd can double palm oil production from five metric tonnes per hectare currently to 10 metric tonnes as targeted by the government.

29/06/2010 (Bernama) - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has been urged to actively seek more collaboration with the private sector in ensuring the success of its research programmes as well as more effective commercialisation of promising research findings.

29/06/2010 (The Malaysian Insider), Sandakan - Palm oil exports rose 21 per cent to RM19 billion in the first four months of this year against exports of RM15 billion registered in the corresponding period last year, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin.

29/06/2010 (Oxfamblogs.org) - You know you’ve had an impact when the Economist devotes three pages to your campaign, so hats off to Greenpeace and the other organizations featured in this week’s spread on palm oil. Here are some excerpts:

28/06/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil advanced as much as 1.1 percent on the prospect that high crude oil prices may lift demand for bio-diesel and as sales from Indonesia grew for the first time in five months, led by Chinese orders.

26/06/2010 (Business Times) - Palm oil exports rose 21 per cent to RM19 billion in the first four months of this year against exports of RM15 billion registered in the corresponding period last year, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin.

25/06/2010 (Palm Hungger.org) - The Economist, in an article entitled “The campaign against palm oil” published on 24th June 2010, carries on a detailed analysis of the reasons for the anti-palm oil campaigns of green groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth (FOE).

24/06/2010 (Deforestation Watch.org) - The recent news on European Union (EU) lawmakers’ views on the long standing issue of the sustainable palm oil production in Malaysia, is a positive development for the local palm oil industry, but some uncertainties still remain.

24/06/2010 (Antara News), Jakarta - Indonesian palm oil producers have welcomed the European Commission (EC)\'s recent decision to remove palm oil and its derivatives from its list of dangerous chemicals.

24/06/2010 (Economist.com) - EARLY on April 21st 2008, Greenpeace activists dressed as orang-utans stormed Unilever’s headquarters in London. Similar raids took place at the multinational’s facilities on Merseyside, in Rome and in Rotterdam. Furry protesters scaled buildings, occupied production lines and unfurled banners. Many read: “Unilever: Don’t Destroy the Forests”. Dove, one of the company’s best-known brands, was singled out by name.