Archived News

2/1/2006 WASHINGTON (Knight Ridder) - Beginning Sunday, new rules on food labeling are making it easier for consumers to avoid artery-clogging trans fats, which have been linked to an increased risk of heart disease.

2/1/06 MIRI (The Star) - Malaysia's pioneer biodiesel - the B5 fuel will be supplied free for the whole of this year to ministries and government agencies that volunteer to try it out.

29/12/05 (The Star) - About 400 jobs are expected to be created in Perak following plans by a public-listed company to build a RM260mil oil palm pulp and paper mill in Sitiawan next year

28/12/05 Thailand (Bangkok Post)--The Agriculture Ministry will soon seek cabinet approval for interest rate compensation to farmers who agree to grow palm as part of the biodiesel production campaign.

28/12/05 KUALA LUMPUR(Bernama) -- Diversified palm oil group, Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd, has teamed up with Germany's CremerOleo GmbH to set up two new plants to produce biofuels and other downstream speciality chemical derivatives.

25/12/05 (Business Times) - MALAYSIA started work on biodiesel two decades ago, but the idea of palm oil powering machines on a large scale did not catch on until four months ago.

23/12/05 (Channel NewsAsia) - Mainboard-listed Ezyhealth has signed a deal to buy a sizeable palm oil business from Wilmar Holdings in a S$1.29 billion reverse takeover.

26/12/05 (The Star) - It is not easy to fight a campaign that endears the public with a cuddly and impish creature. What more when the images portrayed are those of the creature being mutilated, abused, maimed and killed.

27/12/05 (The Star) - While there is no clear documentation of brutality against orang utans linked to the expansion of oil palm plantation in Malaysia, the fate of the Bornean subspecies in Sabah (Pongo pygmaeus morio) is not any better than its cousin in Indonesia.

22/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - The Indonesian government has decided to cut export tax on crude palm oil (CPO) by half, from 3 per cent to 1.5 per cent, effective in two weeks time.

27/12/05 (Business Times) - HIGHER diesel cost and global port congestion are two major factors that may crimp local port operators' profit margins in 2006.

3/1/06 (South China Morning Post) - There is intense controversy around a plan to cut and clear a huge swathe of virgin forest in Indonesia to create the world's largest palm-oil plantation, which China may finance.