Archived News

29/11/2008 (NST Online) - THE Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has the right to penalise processing factories which refused to accept oil palm fruit from suppliers.

28/11/2008 (Graphic Online) - Early last month, three accidental poisoning cases occurred in various homes but all ended up at the Paediatric Emergency Unit of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).

27/11/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - The burning of palm oil to generate electricity is not plausible at this point in time, said Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui.

27/11/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - The proposal of oil palm planters for the government to burn excess palm oil to generate electricity, after initial measures failed to halt the price slump, is unlikely to be implemented, said OSK Research.

26/11/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - Indonesia will likely export 13 million tons of crude palm oil (CPO) this year, 1 million tons short of an earlier target, as the global economic downturn has reduced demand.

25/11/2008 (Infoshop News), Bali/Jakarta — Greenpeace today condemned the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), for failing to take action against member companies who continue to destroy Indonesia’s peatlands and forests at the conclusion of its 6th annual meeting in Bali.

25/11/2008 (Reuters), Jakarta - Indonesia's largest listed palm oil firm, PT Astra Agro Lestari Tbk, expects its palm oil output to remain flat in 2009 as plantations hit maximum capacity, Vice President Director Tonny Hermawan said on Tuesday.

25/11/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - Palm oil makers in Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer, urged the government to promote burning the edible oil for energy after initial proposals to reduce output failed to stop prices falling.

26/11/2008 (My Sin Chew Online) - With the continued slide in international oil prices, CPO prices are also dragged along and have now touched a low of RM1,400 per tonne. Many smallholders are sent to the brink of bankruptcy.

25/11/2008 (The Straits Times, Singapore), Kuala Lumpur - MALAYSIA said on Tuesday it was confident crude palm oil prices will recover from a dramatic slump, thanks to an increase in demand from the world's top consumers, India and China.

25/11/2008 (Money Control), Mumbai - The ongoing tussle between the liquid oil trade and the domestic vanaspati industry has intensified with the latter making a strong pitch for continuing the current duty structure for palm oil and palm kernel oil.

25/11/2008 (Star News Group) - THEY may be too young to drive or vote but Braybrook College students are old enough to know what’s important to them.