Archived News
20-09-2009
Palm oil exports may hit RM60b this year
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
India\'s edible oil import rises by 4% in August
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 to Temporarily Refrain from Selling Econa Products
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
Rains avert Indian oilseed crop disaster -Oil World
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
Rains avert Indian oilseed crop disaster -Oil World
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
Palm oil, Deforestation and Global Warming: Junk Theory
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
Palm Oil Producers Want Indonesia\'s Support on Tough EU Biofuel Regulation
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
Palm kernel sustainably produced, insists Fonterra
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.
14-09-2009
Brisk activity at Port Qasim
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.
14-09-2009
Body Shop ethics under fire after Colombian peasant evictions
13/09/2009 (Guardian.co.uk) - Critics hit out at the eco-friendly cosmetics firm after a supplier cleared Colombian ranch land to grow palm oil– and riot police were brought in to enforce the removal of farmers.
14-09-2009
ASA bans “sustainable†palm oil advert
11/09/2009 (Fair Home) - An advertising campaign claiming that palm oil is sustainable and the “green answer†has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).
14-09-2009
A parade of palm oil products
11/09/2009 (Green Living) - Digging into the palm oil debate, an urgent issue to many environmental groups, our reporter Ashley Phillips found herself slipping into a swamp of material.