Archived News
25-01-2008
Concerns about effect of biofuels on environment grow
23/01/2008 (Crash.net, UK) - Biofuels have been hailed as a renewable alternative to fossil fuels in transport, but recent reports have raised concerns they are not always as green as they seem.
25-01-2008
Cut Fats First: Replacing Bad Fats with Good Fats
24/01/2008 (Mexia Daily News) - With so much information about how to eat for healthy living, it is hard to know where to begin. Beginning by cutting out some of the fats in your diet is a step in the right direction, but simply cutting down on total fat isn’t the whole picture. We actually need to pay attention to the type of fats we are eating.
25-01-2008
Africa: Biofuel-Chasing EU Puts Pressure On Grains Supply
25/01/2008 (AllAfrica.com) - The decision by the European Union not to review its controversial biofuel consumption targets is expected to pile more pressure on the critically low global cereal stocks, analysts said.
25-01-2008
Felda settlers poised to receive higher living allowance
25/01/2008 (The Star Online), Jempol - The living allowance for Felda settlers taking part in the replanting scheme will be increased, beginning next month.
24-01-2008
J&J joins \"green\" consortium
23/01/2008 (NJ.com) - Global food and consumer goods companies are backing a plan to certify palm oil -- the vegetable oil used in products ranging from margarine to cosmetics, and, increasingly, biodiesel -- to ensure that its soaring production doesn't spur greater destruction of tropical rainforests.
24-01-2008
Palm oil has biggest decline in seven months
22/01/2008 (The Financial Times), Singapore - Palm oil futures in Malaysia, the global benchmark, had its biggest intra-day decline in seven months on concern a slowing global Economy may curb demand for vegetable oils used for food and fuels.
24-01-2008
Cooking Oil Producers: Fines Would Raise Prices in Bulgaria
23/01/2008 (Novinite.com) - Bulgarian cooking oil producers that were fined for being involved in cartel relations complained severe sanctions would raise the price of the oil and cut workers\' wages.
24-01-2008
Police seize cooking oil hidden in packages of diapers
23/01/2008 (NST Online), Rantau Panjang - Police seized 782 kg of cooking oil worth about RM2,400 inside packages of diapers in an operation at the Che Dollah illegal jetty on Sunday.
24-01-2008
Costly crude oil means costly cooking oil for much of developing world
22/01/2008 (Blogging Stocks.com) - The decade's dramatic rise in crude oil prices to roughly $90 per barrel levels has had a lesser-known, but equally consequential impact on life in the developing world -- a rise in price of cooking oils from palm, soybean and many other types of vegetable oils, The New York Times reported.
24-01-2008
Malaysia reduces cooking oil supply to Malaysia-Thailand border town to curb smuggling
21/01/2008 (People's Daily Online, China, P.R.) - Supply of cooking oil to Rantau Panjang, Malaysia-Thailand border town, will be reduced to curb smuggling which has become rampant, Malaysian official said in Kota Baharu, capital city of northern Kelantan state on Monday.
24-01-2008
Costly fuel means costly calories
22/01/2008 (Straight Goods.com), Kuantan - Rising prices for cooking oil are forcing residents of Asia’s largest slum, in Mumbai, India, to ration every drop. Bakeries in the United States are fretting over higher shortening costs. And here in Malaysia, brand-new factories built to convert vegetable oil into diesel sit idle, their owners unable to afford the raw material.
24-01-2008
New govt must develop other energy sources
24/01/2008 (The Bangkok Post) - It is high time that Thailand took serious steps to develop sustainable energy sources for a sustainable future. His Majesty the King has called for greater use of biodiesel, gasohol and other alternative energy sources, to reduce the import of oil, which costs the country billions of baht annually.