Archived News
13-12-2005
Local supplies to trim Indian edible oil imports
10/12/2005 NEW DELHI, (Reuters): Good domestic supplies and stocks are expected to trim India's edible oil imports by more than 100,000 tonnes in November-January, or around 15 per cent, trade and industry officials said yesterday.
13-12-2005
Duty duel jars Asean symphony
12/12/05 Kuala Lumpur, (The Tetegaph) - A duty duel is raging amid a diplomatic scramble to carve out a pan-Asian free trade area.
13-12-2005
Settlers told to improve status
13/12/05 (The Star) - PUTRAJAYA: Felda settlers, who will get RM97mil in bonus payments by the end of the month, must strive harder to be either in the middle-income or lower middle-income group, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
13-12-2005
Govt to proceed with huge plantation plan
11/12/05 (Jakarta Post) JAKARTA: - The government says it will stick to its plan to clear 1.8 million hectares of forest on the Indonesian-Malaysian borders in Kalimantan despite the discovery of a rare carnivore, dubbed the Beast of Borneo, in the island's forests recently.
08-12-2005
OUTLOOK 06:Palm Oil Sales To Rise On U.S, China Demand
6/12/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Palm oil prices found a new supportive factor when anticipated demand from the biofuels sector altered the dynamics of palm oil pricing in 2005.
08-12-2005
PPB Oil plans to acquire 95% of Indonesia's Malindo
8/12/05 (The Star) - PPB Oil Palms Bhd has proposed to buy a 95.1% stake in PT Malindo Lestari Plantations for US$48,719.
08-12-2005
Indonesian President To Decide On Plantation Plan In W. Kalimantan
7/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - Forestry Minister M.S. Kaban said the decision on the controversial plan to establish oil palm plantations in frontier areas will be left to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
08-12-2005
Indonesia Called To Lift Its Tax On CPO Exports
7/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - In order to boost its crude palm oil exports, Indonesia, facing stiff competition from Malaysia, should lift its tax on CPO exports, or at least maintain the current CPO export tax at three per cent, instead of raising it, agricultural expert and former legislator, Imam Churmen said here Wednesday.
08-12-2005
Indonesia's CPO Output To Reach 14.3 MLN Tons In 2006: Exec
6/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) production is expected to increase by one million tons to 14.3 million tons in 2006, an executive said here on Sunday.
08-12-2005
Central Kalimantan Aims For CPO Output Of 1 MLN Tons In 2006
5/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - Central Kalimantan hopes to produce at least 1 million tons of crude palm oil (CPO) in 2006, up from an estimated 800,000 tons in 2005
08-12-2005
New Animal Found On Borneo Island
7/12/05 JAKARTA, Indonesia, (AP) - A catlike creature photographed by camera traps on Borneo Island is likely to be a new species of carnivore, the World Wildlife Fund said Tuesday.
08-12-2005
ASA calls for action to defend tax incentive for U.S. biodiesel industry
7/12/05 ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Iowa Farmer Today.com) - The American Soybean Association (ASA) today expressed outrage over the announcement that large quantities of biodiesel will be imported to take advantage of the new tax incentive for biodiesel sold in the United States.