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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- The cordial atmosphere at the Asean and related meetings was shattered Thursday when Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz and her Indian counterpart Kamal Nath clashed openly over New Delhi's reluctance to lower duties for palm oil.

31/8/06 SEPANG: (The Star) - Malaysia has teamed up with China in a bilateral research and development (R&D) cooperation to further develop biofuel and biomass production technologies.

23/8/06 (AP) - Energy firm npower today said it was considering running one of its oil-fired plants on palm oil.

23/8/06 (Bloomberg) -- A British subsidiary of Germany's RWE AG may convert an oil-fired power plant in southeastern England to burn palm oil after it evaluates the costs and technical issues.

28/8/06 (The Edge News) - Shell Malaysia sees the Malaysian government’s stance on biofuels as a move in the right direction but does not see the use of crude palm oil as a viable feedstock for biodiesel in the long term, its chairman Saw Choo Boon said.

28/8 /2006 (Financial Express) Refiners have urged the government to impose a specific duty on import of the crude edible oil to bring down the prices of the essential in the local markets.

23/8/06 2006 (Friends of the Earth) - Proposals by RWE npower to run the Littlebrook power station in Kent on palm oil have been criticised by Friends of the Earth.

19/8/2006 (The Star) - FOR the oil palm sector, targets set for the IMP3 period (2006-2020) include achieving total investments of RM26.1bil, or RM1.7bil per year, largely in oleochemicals and biodiesel.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- India expects to triple its palm oil imports to about 10 million tonnes by 2012 to fuel its rapidly growing economy.

18/8/06 (The Star) - KUCHING: Fires have destroyed more than 1,000ha of oil palm plantations in Samarahan, Sri Aman and Betong divisions in southern Sarawak, adding to the worsening haze enveloping the state.

21/8/2006 (Reuters) SINGAPORE — Singaporean Kom Mam Sun ran his Nissan truck on biodiesel fuel for two years to test his business idea of turning used cooking oil from restaurants into fuel for vehicles.

21/8/06 (Channel NewsAsia) SINGAPORE : Rotary Engineering has won a S$24 million contract from Germany's Peter Cremer to build a biodiesel process plant.