Archived News

10/4/05 (Bernama) - Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia recorded a higher trade surplus of RM7.6 billion in February 2007 compared with RM7.4 billion in February last year.

10/4/07 (Business Times) - BRAZIL, a major global producer of soyaoil, is buying more palm oil from Malaysia in an effort to meet its government's mandate on the use of 2 per cent biodiesel (B2) content in diesel next year.

4/4/07 ( The Financial Express) JAKARTA, -India will cut back on its crude palm oil (CPO) imports from Indonesia, and may even switch to other vegetable oils if the island country exports its refined palm oil instead of its CPO.

4/4/07 ( Mongabay.com) - The Associated Press (AP) recently quoted Marcel Silvius, a renowned climate expert at Wetlands International in the Netherlands, as saying palm oil is a failure as a biofuel.

9/4/07 (Daily Express, Sabah) - Keningau: More than 200 acres of oil palm were destroyed in a fire believed started by an unknown person, here, last month.

5/4/07 (Infoshop News) - The numbers are damning. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, little more than a footnote in history.

5/4/07 (Checkbiotech.org) - As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

9/4/07 ( Brazzil.com) - Recent research on the impact of fossil fuels has contributed to making the subject of biofuels the order of the day.

2/4/07 (Business Tiness ) - DESPITE a mid-week scare sparked by concerns over the deteriorating US housing market situation and surging crude oil prices above the US$60-a-barrel mark, buyers returned by the end of the week to shore up global and Bursa Malaysia equities, enabling the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) to rise for a second week.

28/3/07 (Business Times) - GOOD news for palm oil! A top palm oil industry official says global palm oil sales are set to rise due to the substantial reduction in soya oil production in the US.

30/3/07 (Soyatech.com) National Agricultural Statistics Service -- USDA, Washington, D.C. - Corn growers intend to plant 90.5 million acres of corn for all purposes in 2007, up 15 percent from 2006 and 11 percent higher than 2005.

30/3/07 DUBLIN, Ireland -- (BUSINESS WIRE) - Research and Markets has announced the addition of China Edible Oil Market Report, 2007 to their offering.