Archived News

23/09/2009 (Reuters) - Indian soyoil futures ended down on Wednesday tracking weakness in Malaysian palm market and on expectations supplies may pick up after the early sown crop is harvested, analysts said.

22/09/2009 (Deforestration Watch) - Writing in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sandy Bauers bemoans the fact that palm oil appears to be in everything. She writes: “The world of suds is quite the soap opera. Trying to sort it out took me into global commerce, biodiesel, and vegetarianism.”

21/09/2009 (RTT News) - Stimulus measures introduced in the last fiscal year to protect the country from the impact of the global economic meltdown would continue till there are signs of clear recovery in recession-hit U.S and Europe, India's finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told reporters on Saturday.

20/09/2009 (Find Article.com) - MALAYSIA'S palm oil exports may expand by 20 per cent to touch RM60 billion this year, thanks to higher average palm oil prices and improving global demand.

19/09/2009 (FnB News.com) - The Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEAI), organisation to help and foster development of solvent extraction industry, said that the country's vegetable oil import soared marginally by 4% to 650,603 tonnes in August, compared with 622,813 tonnes in a year-ago period.

16/09/2009 (Kao.com (Japan)) - Kao Corporation (President and CEO: Motoki Ozaki) announces that the Company will temporarily refrain from selling and also halt shipping of Econa-related products, including Econa Cooking Oil.

15/09/2009 (Reuters) - Last minute rain may have saved India's oilseeds crops from a drought disaster and the harvest may rise on the year, cutting the country's edible oil import need in coming months, oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday.

15/09/2009 (Reuters), Hamburg - Last minute rain may have saved India\'s oilseeds crops from a drought disaster and the harvest may rise on the year, cutting the country\'s edible oil import need in coming months, oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday.

14/09/2009 (Article Trader) - This is a true story. In a riveting and astonishing tell-all book called appropriately "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man", John Perkins recounts his life story working inadvertently as an "Economic Hit Man".

14/09/2009 (Jakarta Globe) - The country’s crude palm oil producers have called on the government to defend their interests against the European Union over a draft directive on renewable energy and fuel quality that they said would be detrimental to them.

14/09/2009 (Radio New Zealand News) - Fonterra is holding to its view that most of the palm kernel imported by its subsidiary RD1 as a supplementary feed for dairy cows is sustainably produced.

13/04/2009 (Daily Times), Karachi - Brisk shipping was recorded for 2nd consecutive at the Port where seven ships carrying containers, furnace oil, palm oil, coal and LPG were accommodated berths at Qasim international containers terminal, iron ore & coal berth, liquid cargo terminal, Engro Vopak terminal and Progas terminal respectively on Friday.