Archived News

15/11/2007 (The Star Online), Kota Kinabalu - Following its merger with Wilmar International Ltd, PPB Oil Palms Bhd will focus mainly on improving production and yield, said managing director Khoo Eng Min.

14/11/2007 (Pacific Magazine) - Papua New Guinea sugar maker Ramu Sugar Ltd (RSL) is set to produce its first crude palm oil next month.

13/11/2007 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian Palm Oil council (MPOC) has unveiled a five-year branding and marketing strategy to improve the country's image as the world’s largest net exporter of palm oil.

13/11/2007 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Negotiations on the India-Asean free trade agreement (FTA) are unlikely to witness any progress at the third East Asia Summit (EAS) beginning next week in Singapore. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will represent India at the summit, has been briefed by the commerce department on the current impasse in negotiations.

13/11/2007 (Statesman News Service), Thairuvananthapuram - Kerala agriculture minister Mr Mullakkara Ratnakaran is in New Delhi to convince Mr Sharad Pawar, Union agriculture minister, that a ban on palm oil import through the ports of south India is in the coconut farmers’ best interest.

12/11/2007 (International Herald Tribune), Jakarta - Indonesia, the largest palm oil producer in the world, plans to set up a holding company for its 14 state-owned plantation owners, a proposal that may precede a share sale within two years.

13/11/2007 (PTI), New Delhi - The government on Tuesday ruled out any plan to reduce the import duty on edible oils such as soyabean oil and palm oil.

13/11/2007 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices eased yesterday as the drop in export volume raised concerns that prices might have gone up too quickly to sustain demand.

13/11/2007 (New Consumer.com)Palm oil is one of the latest environmentally catastrophic ingredients that we’ve been waking up to lately - and quite literally, as from cereals to soaps it’s an often unspecified oil in many products.

13/11/2007 (The Economic Times), Gianyar - Indonesia plans to return to a 5 per cent biodiesel blend in diesel within the next three years on expectations of rising palm oil and jatropha production, Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Tuesday.

13/11/2007 (Poynter Online) - Marketplace radio has a story about the soaring price of palm oil, corn oil and other vegetable oils. The Marketplace story says about one third of the world's vegetable oil comes from palm trees. For the last decade, palm oil has traded for about $450 a ton. Now it sells for more than double. Palm oil is the cheapest vegetable oil. Prices rose by 40 percent in 2006.

13/11/2007 (Carbon Positive) - A number of multinational food and household product companies have been named in a report by Greenpeace as contributing to the rapid destruction of tropical rainforest and related greenhouse gas emissions.