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2/12/05 (The Star) - THE Felda group plans to set up palm biodiesel plants in Malaysia as part of its effort to become one of the world's largest producers of palm biodiesel.

BANGKOK (Dow Jones)--The following table shows Thailand's imports of soybeans, soymeal, pulp and palm oil in January-to-October, compared with imports in the same period in 2004.

5/12/05 (The Star) - IT'S a clear-cut task for Datuk Mohd Bakke Salleh, the newly appointed Felda Holdings Bhd group managing director.

3/12/05 PETALING JAYA, (Bernama) -- The palm oil industry should consider consolidating the refining sector or integrating palm oil business to address the shortage of raw materials, said Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Peter Chin.

29/11/05 KLANG,(Bernama) -- Malaysia will send fact-finding teams to explore investment opportunities in palm oil-related activities abroad, especially in countries that have similar climate as the country, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said Tuesday.

30/11/05 (BBC News) - The chief minister of Malaysia's biggest state has accused a number of organisations of conducting "smear campaigns" about logging within the state's tropical rainforest.

1/12/05 Jakarta (The Jakarta Post) - Apart from potential losses due to environmental destruction, the planned 1.8 million hectares of oil palm plantations in Kalimantan will cause the state financial losses of Rp 237.8 trillion (US$23.69 billion), an environmental group warns.

30/12/05 JAKARTA, ( Asia Pulse) - The Indonesian government has been asked to forget about its plan to build a palm oil plantation in the Kalimantan-Malaysia border region, since these parts still have timber producing potential estimated at Rp237.8 trillion (US$23.5 billion).

29/12/05 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysia has warned it will name and shame Malaysian palm oil plantation companies based in Indonesia which contribute to the annual haze hazard by allowing open burning.

26/11/05 (The star) - The Government, through the Ministry of Plantation Enterprises and Commodities, has introduced a special scheme to help poverty-stricken rural folk in Sabah and Sarawak to venture into the oil palm industry

25/11/05 JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--China will remove import quotas on edible oils in 2006, but that won't lead to a dramatic increase in Indonesian palm oil exports to China, as increasing competition from soyoil will make it difficult for Indonesia to aggressively compete for added market share, analysts said.

29 November, 2005 (Sabah Daily Express) - Ranau: Industrial Development Minister Datuk Ewon Ebin said the Malaysia recorded export receipts of RM20 billion from palm oil last year, of which 30 per cent (or RM6 billion) was contributed by Sabah.