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25-03-2005
Carotino is cooking oil with multitude of good use
Thursday, March 24, 2005By Jimmy Schmidt
25-03-2005
Golden Hope to post better earnings
March 25 2005 - GOLDEN Hope Plantations Bhd is expected to perform betterin 2005 compared with last year on the back of firm crude palm oil (CPO)prices.
25-03-2005
Malaysian minister urges growth triangle's revival
Mar 24, 2005 JAKARTA - Malaysian Trade Minister Rafidah Azzis has calledfor the reactivation of the "Growth Triangle", an area development conceptplanned by the previous governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand, alocal daily reported on Wednesday.
25-03-2005
MARKET TALK
24/3/05USD Recovery Negative For Vegoil Exports(Dow Jones)--Stonger USD negative for edible oil prices, could hitexports; EUR/USD now at 1.297 vs high of 1.348 mid-March. Stronger USD mayaffect soyoil, palm oil exports as it makes dollar-denominated commoditiesmore expensive for consumers, traders say.
24-03-2005
CPO producers countries to strengthen bargaining p
24/03/05 - In response to India's move to slap a high import duty on crudepalm oil (CPO), the world's top CPO producers -- Indonesia, Malaysia andThailand -- aim to form a trilateral cooperation pact that couldeventually affect global CPO prices.
24-03-2005
Greenergy partners with Tesco to fund UK biodiesel
3/23/2005 - Greenergy Fuels Ltd, a fuels business with annual sales of £1billion and a leader in the supply of premium quality biofuels, announcedtoday that it has joined forces with shareholder Tesco to service therapidly growing European biofuels market. The partnership with Tesco willenable Greenergy to extend its existing domestic and European biodieselsupply operations by building the UK's largest single-line biodieselproduction facility.
23-03-2005
Drought to boost CPO, rubber prices
Tuesday March 22, 2005 - THE prolonged drought in the region will have apositive impact on the prices of commodities like crude palm oil (CPO) andrubber, but production will be lower.
23-03-2005
India keeps high palm oil tariff despite RI protes
The Jakarta Post - Mar 21 6:36 PM - India will maintain its higher importduty on crude palm oil (CPO) despite complaints from Indonesia, IndonesianMinister of Agriculture Anton Apriyantono said on Monday.
23-03-2005
India To Adjust CPO Import Duty To Int'l Prices: I
JAKARTA, March 22 Asia Pulse - India promised to periodically adjust itsimport duty on palm oil to the international price, Agriculture MinisterAnton Apriyantono said.
23-03-2005
Indonesia to focus on palm oil quality, price to c
3/21/05 - Indonesian Agriculture Minister Anton Aproyantoma has said hiscountry will focus on quality and competitive pricing of crude palm oil inorder to compete with Malaysia. The minister said that Indonesia plans totap bio-diesel as a fuel for domestic transport. He also said that Indiashould lower the carotenoid value of palmolein.
23-03-2005
Japanese edible oil fails to attract Pakistani buy
23/03/05 - KARACHI: Lack of buying interest in soybean oil marred auctionof the commodity on Tuesday by Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP),which managed to sell only 1,100 out of 33,000 tonnes of the productgranted by Japan.
23-03-2005
Malaysia's Lion Forest In Indonesian Oil Palm JV P
KUALA LUMPUR, March 21 Asia Pulse - Lion Forest Industries Berhad [LFIB]said it has signed a joint venture agreement with the government of theMalinau Regency (PKM) in Indonesia's Kalimantan Timur for the proposeddevelopment of 40,000 hectares of oil palm plantation and the constructionof two crude palm oil mills.