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Thursday, October 07, 2004 - GEOGRAPHICALLY and topographically, the palmoil industry will not be viable in Negros Occidental, said businessmanEnrique Montilla.

Saturday October 9, 2004 - THE physical part of the rationalisationexercise between Golden Hope Plantations Bhd (GHope) and Island &Peninsular Bhd (I&P) is to be completed by Nov 1 this year, said groupchief executive Datuk Sabri Ahmad.

Friday, October 08, 2004 - FOREIGN investors expressed willingness tofinance the proposed palm oil plantation planned in southern NegrosOccidental.

06/10/04 KUALA LUMPUR: Pakistan’s palm oil imports, which surged in thelast two months, are expected to slow during the rest of the year withfull-year intake unlikely to exceed the 2003 total, an industry officialsaid.

10/8/2004 THIS DAY (NIGERIA) - AAGM via NewsEdge Corporation : Chairman ofDoyin Group of Companies, Prince Samuel Adedoyin, has said that one of thecompany's subsidiaries, Consolidated Foods and Beverages Limited, wasproducing at below 10 per cent of the factory's installed capacity.

Saturday October 9, 2004 - THE 12th of every month is significant toinvestment research analysts who cover the plantation sector. That is whenthe Malaysian Palm Oil Board releases statistics on the previous month'sperformance of the Malaysian oil palm industry.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- TSH Resources Bhd (TSH) will producepulp and paper from empty fruit bunches (EFB) and palm oil mill effluents(POME) by the end of 2006, its executive deputy chairman, Datuk AzizanAbdul Rahman, said Friday.

10/6/2004 FINANCIAL EXPRESS - Good soyabean harvest in the US is likely tohave a dampening impact on the crude palm oil (CPO) prices in theMalaysian market. The CPO prices are likely to drop by about 12% toRM1,300 per tonne from the current level of RM 1,450 a tonne by the firstquarter of 2005, said Dr James Fry, managing director of LMC InternationalLtd. Presenting a paper at the Oils and Fats International Congress(OFIC-2004)

JAKARTA, 10/06 -Export of Indonesia`s crude palm oil (CPO) is predicted todecline by 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004, an industry executivesaid Tuesday.

Wednesday October 6, 2:25 PM KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Pakistan's palm oilimports, which surged in the last two months, are expected to slow duringthe rest of the year with full-year intake unlikely to exceed the 2003total, an industry official said.

06/10/04 JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Major palm oil players and non-governmentalorganizations plan to produce standards and criteria for a sustainablepalm oil industry within a year, the Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil,or RSPO, said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is ready to push forward itsbiotechnology industry with a series of collaborations and joint-ventureswith international biotechnology companies before the end of the year,Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Datuk Dr Jamaludin Jarjis,said here Monday.