Archived News
22-01-2007
Downward pressure on palm oil
22-01-2007
Basir Ismail dies at 80
20/107 (NSTP) - TAIPING: Tan Sri Basir Ismail, one of the country's leading corporate figures, died early yesterday.
22-01-2007
Plantations: Floods have minimal impact on earnings
21/1/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUUR: LISTED plantation companies with large oil palm estates in flood-struck Johor expect the disaster to have a negligible impact on their full year earnings for 2006 and 2007.
22-01-2007
Flood boon to CPO
22/1/07 (The Star) - FOREIGN brokerages expect the flood situation in Johor to give a short-term boost in the price of crude palm oil (CPO).
22-01-2007
Cutting trans fats confounds chains
21/1/07 ( Pioneer Press) ATLANTA - Unhappy customers started calling soon after McDonald's announced plans in 2002 to reduce trans fats in french fries.
19-01-2007
EU bio-fuel demand threatens Indonesian forests
18/1/07 JAKARTA (AFP) - Growing European Union demand for bio-fuel could threaten Indonesia's last remaining forests as the government approves new palm oil plantations, environmental group Greenpeace warned.
19-01-2007
Malaysian firm launches IPO for first-ever oil palm plantation
15/1/07 (AP) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Boustead Properties on Monday launched a 229.7 million ringgit (US$64.5 million, Ã?54 million) initial public offer of Malaysia's first-ever oil palm plantation real estate investment trust.
19-01-2007
500 from 7 Nabawan kampungs claim losing titled lands
17/1/07 (Daily Express News) NABAWAN - Some 500 residents representing seven kampungs have voiced their objections against the acquisition of their land - including their school, cemetery, kampungs and titled lands - by a private company for oil palm and rubber cultivation.
19-01-2007
Malaysian plantation mega-merger hits snag
16/1/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A 9.0 billion dollar merger of three Malaysian plantation companies to create the world's largest listed palm oil firm has hit a snag, with their majority shareholder getting cold feet, a report has said.
19-01-2007
PM: Plantations merger deal to go on
17/1/07 (The Star) - PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will go ahead with plans to merge three plantations firms to create the world's largest listed oil palm planter, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
19-01-2007
India mulls concessions for Asean free trade pact
17/1/07 (rediff.com) - India is considering making concessions on the five-year "standstill" period for duty cuts on crude and refined palm oil, pepper and black tea imports in its proposed free trade agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations, according to a senior commerce ministry official.
19-01-2007
Japan's Kanematsu eyes Indonesia biofuel sector
JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Japan's Kanematsu Corp. is considering building a biofuel plant using cassava as a feedstock in Indonesia, the industry minister said on Thursday. The bioethanol plant will have the capacity to produce 100,000 litre bioethanol per day, Fahmi Idris told reporters.