Archived News
19-07-2007
Cut down oil palm on river banks, plantations warned
16/7/07 KINABATANGAN (Borneo Bulletin) - Stop planting oil palm trees on river banks or risk getting your licence revoked by the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities.
19-07-2007
International rates fall Edible oil prices still high
16/7/07 (The News) - KARACHI: The local ghee and cooking oil manufacturers are still not willing to revise the prices of their products downwards despite a substantial fall during the last 15 days in palm oil prices in the international market.
18-07-2007
Bakrie to expand oil palm plantation area through joint venture
17/7/07 Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Publicly-listed PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantation Tbk has set up a joint venture company, Agri Resources BV, with several foreign investors to expand its oil palm plantation area.
18-07-2007
Indonesia drafting regulation for domestic palm oil supplies
16/7/07 (Xinhua) - The Indonesian government is drafting a regulation to ensure domestic supplies of crude palm oil (CPO) following cooking oil shortage that caused price to soar in recent months, local press said Monday.
18-07-2007
Regulators approve world's largest listed palm oil firm
17/7/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian regulators have approved the creation of the world's largest listed palm oil firm, the company said Tuesday.
18-07-2007
Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
18/7/07 JAKARTA (Reuters) - Record-high palm oil prices due to voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians without their usual culinary fare.
18-07-2007
Govt told to drop draft bylaw on forest fire control
13/7/07 The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - Greenpeace has urged the central government not to endorse a draft bylaw on the control of forest fires in Riau province, saying articles in the draft could increase slash-and-burn practices in the province.
16-07-2007
Not just palm oil
15/7/07 (The Star) - The Guthrie Foundation's new fellowship is aimed at finding ways to get the best out of what oil palm can offer.
16-07-2007
Palm oil wrangle hits biofuel company
13/7/07 Guardian Unlimited) - Shares in Renewable Power and Light, a UK-listed company that aims to generate electricity from palm oil, crashed today after the company warned it expected to make a loss for the full year.
16-07-2007
Renewable Power warns of loss, shares plunge
13/7/07 LONDON, (Reuters) - Shares in Renewable Power and Light Plc (RPL.L: Quote, Profile , Research) lost more than half their value because it expects to make a loss in 2007 instead of a $25 million pretax profit predicted by the house broker, the firm said on Friday.
16-07-2007
Malaysia palm oil at 1-month high on soyoil
14/7/07 (Reuters) - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended at one-month highs on Friday, after prices of rival soybean oil rose due to lower US government estimates for soybean reserves.
16-07-2007
Cut down oil palm on river banks, plantations warned
15/7/07 (NSTP) - KINABATANGAN: Stop planting oil palm trees on river banks or risk getting your licence revoked by the Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities.