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19/04/2010 (Cath News Asia) - Religious men and women should not get involved in controversy over oil palm plantations in the country, which is “none of the Catholic Church’s business,” says the archbishop of Pontianak in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province

19/04/2010 (The Washington Post), Algarrobo, Colombia - Eight years after President Alvaro Uribe took office and began harnessing billions in U.S. aid to pummel Marxist guerrillas, Colombia is safer for this country's 45 million people and for the foreign investors who have flocked here.

18/07/2010 (The Punch) - Chichi Iwuamadi, a wellness expert, offers tips on how to age gracefully and be in good shape in this interaction with KEMI ASHEFON

16/14/2010 (Media-Newswire.com), Lausanne, Switzerland — 30 Greenpeace activists ( 1 ) dressed as orang-utans today called on Nestlé shareholders to ‘give orang-utans a break’ and stop profiting from destroying the rainforest and accelerating climate change as they arrived at Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

16/14/2010 (AFP), LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Greenpeace campaigners abseiled into Nestle's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday to urge the food giant to stop using palm oil harvested from rainforest destruction.

15/04/2010 (All Africa) - The crop is a great income earner but nut thieves and other hurdles are a threat to industrial production.

15/07/2010 (View Online) - A GREEN energy plant boss has pledged that his company will never use food grade palm oil to produce national grid electricity at their Portland site.

15/04/2010 (Business Financial Wire) - New Britain Palm Oil is to press ahead with the acquisition of the 80% of shares in CTP after approval was given by shareholders.

15/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil futures fell for a fourth day, the longest losing streak in almost a month, as exports from Malaysia, the world’s second-largest supplier, declined in the first half of April and China’s stockpiles rose.

15/04/2010 (Free Malaysia Today), Kota Kinabalu - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has been asked to account for how it has spent close to half-a-billion ringgit in tax collected from Sabah planters over the past five years.

15/04/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - Mounting market pressure on Indonesia’s palm oil industry has forced producers to unite and consolidate efforts to combat what they deem an incomplete assessment by environmentalists.

14/04/2010 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Kurnia Setia Bhd's wholly owned subsidiary, Sri Jelutung Palm Oil Mill Sdn Bhd (SJPOM), plans to construct a palm oil mill together with a compost fertilizer plant at its nearby Sri Jelutong Estate, Pekan, Pahang.