Archived News

25/04/2008 (Red Orbit) - German consumer and industrial product manufacturer Henkel has joined the international Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as an official member, effective April 2008.

25/04/2008(Infoshop News) - Are you a "green" consumer? Even if your intentions are good, your "Earth friendly" soap and organic ice cream may be driving species to extinction and heating up the planet, especially if these products contain palm oil.

25/04/2008 (Business Standard) - Senior officers from Malaysia and Indonesia discussed strategies to promote palm oil in the global market to counter the anti-palm oil campaign in the West, particularly by soy oil producers.

24/04/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Indonesia has turned out to be the surprise sore point in the proposed India-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) that was scheduled to be in place last month. Jakarta’s insistence on offering lower market access to India than other Asean members has held up the pact.

23/04/2008 (The Independent) - Think of Dove cosmetics and you might think of a bunch of right-on soap makers, who have contributed to the great feminist movement by plastering pictures of plus-size women in their bras and knickers on advertising billboards across the country.

23/04/2008 (Reuters, Africa), Nairobi - Kenya's leading edible oils processer Bidco is increasing production capacity at a cost of $10 million ahead of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa's customs integration, its boss said on Wednesday.

23/04/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - The Trade Ministry will start verifying all domestic shipments of oil palm commodities on April 24, Ardiansyah Parman, the director general of domestic trade, said Tuesday.

23/04/2008 (Reuters, India), Mumbai - Indian soyoil June futures are seen rising on Wednesday as high crude oil prices raised hopes of fresh demand from the biofuel sector, analysts said.

23/04/2008 (Daily Times, Pakistan), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian crude palm oil futures rose on Tuesday, pulling back from near two-week lows hit earlier in the session as soyoil prices gained momentum in Asian trade.

23/04/2008 (The Scotsman) - IT WAS seen as a radical solution to tackle climate change by reducing harmful gases from car exhausts, while sheltering motorists from soaring petrol prices.

23/04/2008 (The Daily Star, Bangladesh) - Army chief General Moeen U Ahmed yesterday asked leading importers of edible oil to maintain smooth supply of the essential commodity in the country.

22/04/2008 (Bernama), Kota KInabalu - Palm oil millers in Sabah who have yet to comply with the Department of Environment (DOE) directive on effluent management will be dragged to court.