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17/4/07 (China Post) - Malaysia accused Western activists Monday of trying to undermine the palm oil industry by claiming that orangutans are threatened by the clearing of forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.

16/4/07 (AP) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia accused Western activists Monday of trying to undermine the palm oil industry by claiming that orangutans are threatened by the clearing of forests in Malaysia and Indonesia.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 16 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today said that certain groups in the West are bent on hurting Malaysia's oil palm industry when they accuse the country of killing thousands of orangutan when conducting land clearing for oil palm cultivation.

AUCKLAND, April 18 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called for Malaysian research to determine how palm kernel cake can be used as fodder to boost production of milk by cattle

15/4/07 KARACHI (Business Recorder) - Palm oil prices have gone up by $35 per ton to new high of $735 during last two weeks, deteriorating edible oil crisis in Pakistan, importers told Business Recorder on Saturday.

14/4/07 KUCHING (The Star) - The state Agriculture Department has refuted a claim by European-based non-governmental organisations that oil palm plantations on peat soil produce excessive carbon dioxide and contribute to global warming.

13/4/07 (The Hindu) NEW DELHI - The Union Government on Friday reduced the customs duty on crude and refined palm oil by 10 percentage points to check rising prices of these edible oils and contain inflation.

18/4/07 MADRID (Reuters) - Jatropha, a tough bush with oil-bearing fruit, has plenty of small scale potential but needs more research before it can be grown on a large scale to produce biofuel, a Dutch plant specialist told a conference on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- The Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) is looking into ways to advance the Malaysian palm oil industry, assisting scientists at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) to prioritise their research and development programme.

12/4/07 MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is likely to reduce import duties on palm oil soon, as the government is concerned that soaring prices of the essential commodity might fuel inflation, a leading industry official said.

12/4/07 (Mondaq) - Biofuels around the Globe. In Brazil, cars run on a 25 percent ethanol gasoline blend, taking advantage of being the world's largest producer of sugar-based ethanol of 16 billion litres (3.52 billion gallons) a year.

11/4/07 (WXYZ.com) - As the nation moves to significantly reduce trans fat consumption, the American Heart Association is launching "Face The Fats," an educational campaign to teach consumers how to minimize trans fat in their diet, while avoiding the unintended health consequence of defaulting to more saturated fat. The campaign features an "edutainment" Web site where the Bad Fats Brothers -- named Sat and Trans -- come to life, an interactive fat calculator and recipes developed by celebrity chef Alton Brown.