Archived News

19/06/2009 (African Agriculture) - Herakles Farms, a New York-based agriculture company, is planning two commercial-scale sustainable palm oil plantations in Cameroon and Ghana, providing over 10,000 jobs to local people.

19/06/2009 (The Star Online), Bangi - The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry wants a bigger allocation for palm oil-related research and development (R&D) programmes under the 10th Malaysia Plan to be tabled in Parliament next year.

18/06/2009 (Philstar.com), Manila - The Philippines should encourage and attract Malaysian and Indonesian investments in palm tree plantations in the country which would also help the Philippines develop a two-crop industry for coconut oil and palm oil, incoming CIIF Oil Mills Group president and current Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) director Jesus Arranza said.

18/06/2009 (Mongabay.com) - Dr. Yusof Basiron, CEO of the Malaysian Palm Oil Council, the government-backed marketing arm of the Malaysian palm oil industry, claims on his blog that endangered orangutans benefit from living in proximity to oil palm plantations. Environmentalists scoff at the notion, maintaining that oil palm expansion is one of the greatest threats to orangutans.

17/06/2009 (Science Daily) - Partially hydrogenated vegetable oils in processed foods contain trans fatty acids that interfere with the regulation of blood flow. A new report reveals a new way in which these "trans fats" gum up the cellular machinery that keeps blood moving through arteries and veins.

16/06/2009 (In My Community) - MORE than 100 letters to Woolworths and KFC were signed at a peaceful protest against the use of palm oil in Fremantle last week.

15/06/2009 (Commodity Blog) - Palm oil futures fell after data showed that exports from Malaysia, the second-largest producer, dropped in the first half of this month as supply picked up.

13/06/2009 (Deforestation Watch) - The Associated Press (AP), the American news agency formed in 1846 has had a checkered history filing reports ranging from The Alamo to the Battle of Little Big Horn, to Nazi Germany’s surrender to the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers in New York City.

13/06/2009 (The New York Times), Indonesia - Countless houses and shops built by squatters flank the 40-mile, two-lane road slicing through this national park that, once rich with orangutans and lowland rain forest, now symbolizes Indonesia’s struggle to protect its rare wildlife.

13/06/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has assured importers of palm oil from Malaysia that only the highest quality palm oil is being exported.

13/06/2009 (Bangkok Post) - SET-listed Rayong Purifier Plc (RPC) expects its new biodiesel operation to lift its sales this year by 5.4% to 23.2 billion baht, up from 22 billion last year.

12/06/2009 (The Jakarta Globe) - Palm oil producer PT Gozco Plantation has delayed an Rp 500 billion ($49.5 million) bond issue amid regulatory concerns over the size of the transaction in relation to the company’s revenue and total capital, an executive said.