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23/2/07 (Business Times) - GENTING Bhd, the world's fifth largest casino operator, may sell its 54.8 per cent subsidiary, Asiatic Development Bhd, as the group wants to fully focus on its global gaming business, industry sources said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 (Bernama) -- The change in marketing climate in the Middle East and Africa with the proliferation of free trade agreements, has caused palm oil-based Alami Vegetable Oil Products Sdn Bhd to set up its branch in the two regions.

26/2/2007 (Bloomberg) - Commodities used to make biofuels may be the top performers this year due to increasing demand from the alternative energy industry and the food sector, said Roland Jansen, CEO of Mother Earth Investment AG.

26/2/07 (The Star) - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures prices on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives recovered from their pre-Chinese New Year lows boosted by light technical buying.

19/1/07 (The Star) PETALING JAYA - PPB Oil Palms Bhd is poised this year to tap into Singapore-based Wilmar group's three new palm-based biodiesel plants in Indonesia, which have a combined annual production capacity of 1.15 million tonnes.

15/2/078 SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore-listed Wilmar International Ltd. , an Asian palm oil refiner, on Thursday said its quarterly profit more than doubled and that it expected to continue to benefit from strong demand for palm oil.

18/1/07 ( Honolulu Advertiser) KAHULUI, Maui - A $61 million biodiesel refining plant is being planned to turn imported palm oil into fuel to run Maui Electric Co. generators.

17/2/07 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia is embarking on an ambitious biofuel programme which has already attracted more than 17 billion dollars in foreign and domestic investment and criticism from conservationists worried about the country's forests.

17/207 BANGKOK (TNA) - Thailand's Energy Ministry will put more effort into encouraging more communities to manufacture bio-diesel after discovering that only one-third of the country's used cooking oil is collected and recycled for use in making bio-diesel for local consumption.

14/2/07 WEST BEND, Wis.,(PRNewswire) -- Tropical Traditions announced this week that it had added Organic Palm Shortening to its line of trans fat free oils.

17/2/07 (CattleNetwork.com) EU-25: The EU has a target that 5.75 percent of total transportation fuel use should come from biofuels by 2010.

19/2/07 DUBLIN, Ireland (BUSINESS WIRE) - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c50722) has announced the addition of The Biomass.