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29-01-2007
Malaysian Companies Sign Deal to Move Palm Oil Merger Plan Forward
24/01/07 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysia's Synergy Drive Sdn. Bhd. said Wednesday it signed an agreement to buy the entire assets and liabilities of three companies in a bid to create the world's largest listed palm oil producer.
29-01-2007
Dutch palm oil-based power plant gets court approval
AMSTERDAM, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Dutch High Court gave the green light on Wednesday to the construction of a 50-megawatt power plant based on palm oil, whose sustainability was challenged by environmental organisations.
29-01-2007
Govt cuts edible oil import duty to tame inflation
24/01/07 (Reuters) - NEW DELHI: India, the world's third-largest importer of vegetable oils, on Wednesday cut import duties on palm and sunflower oil products in a bid to cool rising inflation that the finance minister has said is a worry.
29-01-2007
Country-wide palm oil supply halted: contractors, transporters lock horns
23/01/07 (Business Recorder) KARACHI - Palm oil supply to refineries for the whole country has halted for the last four days due to the unannounced strike by transporters, sources told Business Recorder on Monday.
29-01-2007
Guthrie delays listing of Indon unit
27/01/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd is delaying the listing of its Minamas Indonesia unit, after agreeing to a merger plan to form the world's largest listed palm oil planter, sources said.
29-01-2007
Thailand tries to boost bio-diesel consumption
28/01/07 BANGKOK (TNA) - In an attempt to boost consumption of alternative energy which could reduce oil imports, the Energy Ministry has set a revised bio-diesel consumption target on consumption at 500,000 litres per day this year with at least another 300 service stations to be set up nationwide.
29-01-2007
New RM25mil biotech centre will provide further impetus for Felda
29/01/07 (The Star) - FELDA Agricultural Services Sdn Bhd is set to push into new frontiers with its RM25mil biotechnology centre in Negri Sembilan, to be launched by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tomorrow.
22-01-2007
Downward pressure on palm oil
22-01-2007
Basir Ismail dies at 80
20/107 (NSTP) - TAIPING: Tan Sri Basir Ismail, one of the country's leading corporate figures, died early yesterday.
22-01-2007
Plantations: Floods have minimal impact on earnings
21/1/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUUR: LISTED plantation companies with large oil palm estates in flood-struck Johor expect the disaster to have a negligible impact on their full year earnings for 2006 and 2007.
22-01-2007
Flood boon to CPO
22/1/07 (The Star) - FOREIGN brokerages expect the flood situation in Johor to give a short-term boost in the price of crude palm oil (CPO).
22-01-2007
Cutting trans fats confounds chains
21/1/07 ( Pioneer Press) ATLANTA - Unhappy customers started calling soon after McDonald's announced plans in 2002 to reduce trans fats in french fries.