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12/2/06 (The Edge Daily) - Carotech Bhd is stepping up its biodiesel production with a RM100 million investment in a new plant in Lumut, Perak to boost its earnings.

KOTA KINABALU (The Star) - The new dedicated container port of Sabah Port Sdn Bhd (SPSB) currently being built in Sapanggar Bay will be operational by early 2007.

10/2/06 Business Times (Malaysia) - Lam Soon Bhd, via its subsidiary Lam Soon Plantations Sdn Bhd, has acquired the remaining 65 per cent stake in its two joint ventures with Dutch multinational Akzo Nobel in Pasir Gudang, Johor, for Euro24 million (RM107 million).

13/2/06 (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - Coconut oil production is expected to decline by 4 percent this year due to the lingering effects of the mild drought last year.

13/2/06 (The Star) - Dr Radzuan says as plantation companies push for downstream activities, they tend to compromise on the level of efficiency in the upstream sector.

10/2/06 (The Star) - JOHOR BARU: Despite the latest venture into biodiesel production, Kulim (M) Bhd will remain focused on its traditional core business in oil palm plantation.

7/2/06 JAKARTA (AFP) - Activists and economists are outraged at Indonesian plans to cut a swathe through one of the world's largest remaining areas of pristine rain forest to create a massive Chinese-funded palm oil plantation.

9/2/06 JOHOR BAHARU (Bernama) -- Diversified palm oil group Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd is set to boost the region's biodiesel production capacity through its partnership with German company Peter Cremer (Singapore) GmbH.

9/2/06 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd said on Thursday it has teamed up with a German firm to set up two biofuel plants in Malaysia and Singapore to produce "green" fuel mainly for the European market.

9/2/06 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Malaysia's Golden Hope Plantations Bhd. (1953.KU) plans to make 50%-owned Cognis Oleochemicals (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. a unit and may float the company within three years, a senior Golden Hope executive said recently.

9/2/06 JOHOR BAHARU Bernama) -- Johor Corporation (JCorp) hopes to turn the Tanjung Langsat Industrial Complex into the first regional hub for biofuel, says its group chief executive Tan Sri Muhammad Ali Hashim.

9/2/06 ( Business Times) - MALAYSIA, the world's largest palm oil producer, is highly sought after in the coming EDIBLE OIL' 06 International Business Fair for Edible Oils and Fats (EO'06) to satisfy demand for palm oil-based products among international buyers.