Archived News
18-05-2005
Indonesian Govt Targets Cpo Plant Owners Without P
JAKARTA, May 16 Asia Pulse - The agriculture ministry of Indonesia has seta deadline for all crude palm oil factories to have oil palm plantationsin three years, or they will be punished with fines or face criminalcharges.Provincial administrations have been asked to outline CPO processingcompanies that don't own plantations, Plantation Production DirectorGeneral Subagyono said last weekend.
18-05-2005
IOI Corp’s third quarter earnings rise 17% to RM17
Tuesday May 17, 2005 - PLANTATION and property development group IOI CorpBhd reported a 17% growth in net profit to RM175.2mil for its thirdquarter ended March 31, in spite of a seasonally low period for palm oiloutput.
18-05-2005
M'sian Firm To Team Up With German Scientist In Bi
FRANKFURT, May 16 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian resource-based company,FybOrganic Technologies Sdn Bhd, plans to team up with a German scientistin a biotechnology venture to produce biofertilisers and animal feed fromdiscarded oil palm trunks (OPTs).
18-05-2005
Syndicate Selling Kanowit Native Oil Palm Land
KANOWIT, May 16 (Bernama) -- Unsuspecting landowners participating in theKanowit Native Customary Right (NCR) oil palm plantation are being"robbed" of their land by a syndicate that sells it to equallyunsuspecting buyers, according to Assistant Land Development MinisterDatuk Gramong Juna.
18-05-2005
Thailand promotes bio-industry.
BANGKOK, May 15 (TNA) - Thailand’s government is developing a strategyto promote plant-based bio-industry in order to reduce the country'simports of energy and chemicals.
18-05-2005
Three palm oil factories fined RM20,000 each
12 May, 2005 - Tawau: Three oil palm factories represented by theirrespective executives were each fined RM20,000 or two months' jail by theSessions Court here for blatantly disposing effluence exceeding thepermitted level.
18-05-2005
Tocotrienols- Vitamin E Component in Palm Oil, Ric
5/17/2005 - A natural component of rice bran oil lowers cholesterol inrats, and ongoing research also shows it may have potential as ananti-cancer and anti-infection agent in humans, according to a Universityof Rochester scientist who has studied the antioxidant since 1996.
13-05-2005
Golden Hope's Biotechnology To Start Production In
BANTING, May 12 (Bernama) -- Golden Hope Plantations Bhd's newly-launchedBiotechnology Centre here will start producing oil palm tissue cultureplanting materials within one to two months, its group chief executiveDatuk Sabri Ahmad said.
13-05-2005
Malaysia says it may consider East Timor's offer t
Tuesday May 10, 11:53 AM - The government may consider East Timor'soffer to supply Malaysia with construction and agricultural workers in themidst of a shortage of legal foreign laborers, a news report said.
13-05-2005
Surat Thani Province Selected as Center of Thai Pa
5/12/2005 - The result of a study commissioned on the creation of a palmoil city has specified that Surat Thani is appropriate for the project.
13-05-2005
Wärtsilä wins contract to extend Italian liquid bi
11.05.2005
12-05-2005
Expulsion of illegal workers hits Malaysian econom
Wednesday May 11, 03:04 PM - KUALA LUMPUR, (AFP) - Malaysian oil palmplantations are losing up to 70 million ringgit (18 million dollars) amonth because of labour shortages after hundreds of thousands of illegalimmigrants were expelled, a report said.