Archived News

10/4/2005 (China Post) - With oil prices rising worldwide, Taiwan isjumping on the global bandwagon of experimenting with biofuel as a sourceof energy as an alternative to the petroleum-based gasoline and diesel.

04/10/05 (The Malay Mail) - TABUNG Haji (TH) plans to invest as much asRM188.75 million in oil palm plantations in Western Mindanao, ThePhilippines, sources said yesterday.

04/10/05 BANGKOK (Dow Jones)--The following table shows Thailand's importsof soybeans, soymeal, pulp and palm oil in January-to-August, comparedwith the same period last year.

2/10/95 (Business Times) - THE Government's strong push for development ofbiodiesel will produce two immediate benefits - reducing dependence onfossil fuel and stabilising palm oil prices.

30/9/2005 (Business Times) - Malaysia's palm oil has received a boost fromthe medical world with a recent discovery that palm tocotrienol (vitaminE), which is a palm oil extract, may help prevent stroke.

30/09/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- The agriculture sector is expected togrow at a higher rate of five percent in 2006, contributed by higherproduction of palm oil and rubber and increase in food production, saysthe Treasury in its 2005/2006 Economic Report released Friday.

2/10/05 (The Edge Daily) - Europe’s largest and fastest-growing supplierof biofuel BIOX Group BV is coming to Malaysia with big plans, includingsourcing up to 300,000 tonnes of biomass consisting of palm oil and palmoil by-products annually by the beginning of 2007.

1/10/05 KUALA LUMPUR,(Bernama) -- Felcra Bhd is in the process ofidentifying biodiesel technology, which can be used to determine palm oilpercentage in diesel, says its chairman Datuk Hamzah Zainuddin.

29/09/05 KUCHING, (Bernama) -- The Iban community in Aping, Pantu, SriAman Division, about 120 kilometres from Kuching, has launched asmallholder oil palm scheme as a community-based effort on their nativecustomary rights (NCR) land.

30/09/05 NEW YORK, (Bernama) -- Even as Malaysia debates over theincreased use of palm-oil based biodiesel as an alternative toconventional fossil fuel in the future -- biodiesel was a key themediscussed at the recent International Palm Oil Congress 2005 in PetalingJaya -- the use of agriculture-derived renewable sources of energy isproceeding apace in other parts of the world.

10/3/2005 (Business Line) - Recently in Mumbai - By the end of next year,Malaysian companies could control up to 60 per cent of the edible oilrefining capacities in Europe.

29/9/2005 (Business Times)- Catotech Bhd, a 51 per cent-owned unit ofHovid Bhd, plans to spend at least RM100 million to boost the capacity ofits biodiesel plant to meet rising global demand for "green" oil and palmoil-based health products.