Archived News

08/11/2007 (Business Green) - Greenpeace claims Nestle, Unilever and Procter & Gamble are all contributing to the destruction of precious Indonesian peat swamp forests through palm oil deployment.

07/11/2007 (PTI), Kochi - The Kerala High Court has stayed a notification issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade banning import of palm oil through Kochi port.

07/11/2007 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - PPB Oil Palms Bhd, now merged with Wilmar International Ltd, will hand over 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares) of agriculture land already planted with oil palm in Sugut to the Sabah state government for a smallholder scheme.

07/11/2007 (Reuters) - Leaders of the biofuels industry are challenging critics who argue that converting food to fuel is driving up food prices, saying higher energy costs and other factors are more important.

07/11/2007 (The New Nation) - The retail prices of most of the essentials remained almost stable in the city markets on Tuesday, Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) market report said here on Wednesday.

04/11/2007 (Inguirer.net), Manila - Consumers who are supportive of efforts to cut down the country's oil import bill, as a way of preventing upticks in food prices amid the current long-drawn oil price spike, should think twice about biofuels.

07/10/2007 (Business Standard), New Delhi - Differences on duty reduction on items in highly sensitive list mean a spillover to next year.

06/10/2007 (The Jakarta Post) - At first sight it appears to be a boy's scout camp, hidden in the forests of Sumatra. But it only takes a 50-meter stroll behind the camp to realize that the young people who have gathered there from the surrounding villages are not simply nature lovers enjoying their time in the forest, because there is nothing left of the forest.

04/11/2007 (The Wall Street Journal Online) - Rising costs of biofuels and other alternative energies are making them less viable as substitutes for crude oil, a development that could frustrate efforts to bring oil prices down in the years ahead.

06/11/2007 (The World Street Journal Online) - Trans fatty acids are created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oil – a process that makes the oil last longer. Food fried in oil containing trans fat or baked with shortening or other ingredients containing trans fat stay fresh longer. Trans fats are what gave the Oreo cookie filling its smooth, creamy texture and make French fries crisp. But trans fats have been found to raise bad cholesterol while lowering good cholesterol.

06/11/2007 (Bernama), Sarikei - Sarawak's new industrial township of Tanjung Manis near here saw work begin today on a RM300 million integrated complex that is the outcome of a partnership between the public and private sectors.

05/11/2007 (The International News) - Despite efforts to meet bulk of edible oil requirements from indigenous sources, Pakistan’s dependence upon imported edible oils is constantly rising, registering a record increase of 200,000 tons during the last financial year, when the country imported1.8 million tons of edible oils from the earlier average of 1.6 million tons per year.