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21/9/06 (Business Line) - Easing of Malaysian palm oil prices have started impacting local prices. Local refiners have dropped the price of refined palm oil by Rs 2-8 per 10 kg.

21/9/06 (The Star) - BEIJING: Bursa Malaysia is considering launching a dollar-denominated palm oil futures contract as early as next year to head off potential competition from a rival backed by the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), a senior exchange official said yesterda

23/9/06 (Busines Line) - MUMBAI: Godrej Agrovet Ltd (GAVL) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IJM Plantations Berhad of Malaysia on Saturday to float a new joint venture company that will initially make an investment of Rs 200 crore in the Indian oil palm sector.

19/9/06 (The Star) - MIRI: Malaysia’s ecomat - an environmentally friendly oil palm by-product that has proven effective in halting the spread of deserts in China - has drawn keen interest from Libya and Lebanon.

22/9/06 MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's edible oil imports in the year ending October 2007 are expected to rise by about 1 million tonnes to 5.5 million tonnes from this crop year on strong demand and expected lower oilseeds output, a top international expert said.

24/9/06 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's first fully plant-fuelled car has successfully completed a 3,200-kilometre (2,000-mile) road trip. Now its backers are hoping the triumph may herald a new era of sustainable energy in the archipelago nation.

20/9/06 Mumbai (Busienss Line) - With crude market softening much beyond the expectation of many and current energy market fundamentals not in support of a price spike anytime soon, in tandem with rising global output of oilseeds and vegetable oil, the hype generated by vegetable oil producers, especially palm oil producers, about looming bio-diesel demand is in danger being whittled down.

23/9/06 MUMBAI (Reuters) - Malaysia plans to complete a review of its biodiesel licensing policy by early next year, commodities minister Peter Chin told Reuters on Saturday.

19/9/06 (NSTP) - WHEN met at a networking session in Jakarta recently, chairman of Indonesia's privately-held Para Group, Chairul Tanjung, urged his Malaysian counterparts to seize the opportunities that his country has to offer in various sectors and invest more.

22/9/06 HOUSTON(soyatech com) - Emerging Markets Online, an energy intelligence agency and management consulting firm, announces the release of Biodiesel 2020: A Global Market Survey.

18/9/06 (AP) BRUSSELS - EU agriculture ministers on Monday failed to agree on authorizing the use of some biotech rapeseeds which are tolerant to a certain herbicide.

19/9/06 (The Star) - MIRI: Malaysia’s ecomat - an environmentally friendly oil palm by-product that has proven effective in halting the spread of deserts in China - has drawn keen interest from Libya and Lebanon.