Archived News

11/12/2009 (Greenpeace) - Indonesian conglomerate, the Sinar Mas group, has extensive interests in both the palm oil and pulp and paper sectors.

11/12/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Malaysia’s palm oil stocks in November stood at 1.934 million tonnes, reflecting only a marginal decrease from 1.974 million tonnes, the highest level year-to-date, recorded in October.

10/12/2009 (Planet Ark), Hamburg - Europe's food industry is proving slow to buy palm oil certified under a new scheme as produced without destroying tropical rain forests, the head of Germany's edible oil industry association OVID said on Wednesday.

09/12/2009 (Palm Oil HQ) - Malaysia should not be alone in battling the anti-palm oil smear campaign, mounted by European activists and non-government organisations (NGOs), former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday.

09/12/2009 (International Business Times), Hamburg - Europe's food industry is proving slow to buy palm oil certified under a new scheme as produced without destroying tropical rain forests, the head of Germany's edible oil industry association OVID said on Wednesday.

09/12/2009 (Forbes), Amsterdam - Dutch vegetable oil processor Unimills, owned by Malaysia's Sime Darby, sees volatility in edible oil prices as one of its main concerns in future, its managing director said on Wednesday.

09/12/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - The recent Indonesian Palm Oil Conference and Price Outlook (IPOC) forecasted a potential shortage of CPO in 2010, on the back of rising demand and limited growth of supply, caused mainly by the commencement of a low cycle, the El Ni*o effect and the replanting program in Malaysia.

09/12/2009 (IPS News), HELSINKI - As Finnish energy major Neste Oil scales up production of its ‘green’ diesel NExBTL, environmental activists fear that more land will go under palm oil plantations at the expense of Southeast Asia’s threatened rainforests.

09/12/2009 (Antara News), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia should not be alone in battling the anti-palm oil smear campaign, mounted by European activists and non-government organisations (NGOs), former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Tuesday.

08/12/2009 (Dawn.com) - KARACHI: The rising palm oil prices in the world markets have further pushed up the rate of 16kg ghee and cooking oil tins to Rs1,780 from Rs1,720 on Dec 1, compared to Rs1,680 on Nov 1, in Karachi.

08/12/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Shares on Bursa Malaysia closed lower on Tuesday led by plantation stocks which dipped on weak crude palm oil prices, a dealer said.

08/12/2009 (Bloomberg) - Vegetable oil purchases by India, the world’s biggest consumer after China, will reach a record this year as an import tax waiver pares costs and stokes demand in Asia’s third-largest economy.