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13 June, 2003 - Vitamin E and beta carotene do not protect against heartdisease and may even be harmful, according to doctors.Previous studies have suggested these vitamins can keep arteries healthyand can protect against heart disease.

4/5/054 - Vitamins could actually increase levels of "bad cholesterol",researchers have suggested.It had been thought that vitamins could protect the heart.

Beijing, Apr 23 (PTI) Aided by good monsoon, India is set to produce 25million tonnes of oilseeds this year compared to 15.57 million tonnes lastyear, allowing enhanced production of vegetable oils at 7.50 milliontonnes, a visiting senior Indian industry official said here.

Saturday May 1, 2004 - BASED on land area alone, it looks inevitable thatIndonesia will one day overtake Malaysia in the palm oil business. As itis, Indonesia has long been a strong No. 2, and together, the twocountries account for more than 80 per cent of the world's palm oilproduction.

JAKARTA, April 30 Asia Pulse - Indonesia needs to make more efforts toexport more valued-added commodities, an Indonesian senior AgricultureMinistry said.

JAKARTA, May 4 Asia Pulse - Malaysian, Chinese and Indian investors willbe involved in a project to open oil-palm plantations in East and WestKalimantan, an official on the vice presidential staff said.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 (Bernama) -- Malaysia External Trade DevelopmentCorporation (MATRADE) is organising a Specialised Marketing Mission (SMM)to Russia, Poland and Hungary from May 31 to June 11 this year.

Tuesday May 4, 2004 - PAN-Century Group, the investment arm of Indianconglomerate Aditya Birla Group, plans to increase its investments inMalaysia by up to RM400mil over the next five years, said newly appointedcountry head Ravi Kastia.

Monday May 3, 2004, SRI KEMBANGAN - Prime Minister Datuk Seri AbdullahAhmad Badawi's announcement that there would be a tighter focus on thenation's research and development activities was applauded by thetechnology industry.

4/28/2004 (LLOYDS LIST) - BRAZIL'S remarkable success in the expansion ofsoya and grain exports is in danger of being undone by problems in itsleading agribulk terminals, according to brokers and shipowners.

22/04/2004 JAKARTA (Bisnis): The Ministry of Trade and Industry appointedPT Perusahaan Perdagangan Indonesia (PPI) as the trading house of thecounter trade program of the government, while Bank Mandiri would be theexecuting bank.The director of Export and Import Facilitation of the Ministry of Tradeand Industry, Andreas Anugrah, said that the government was of the opinionthat PPI and Bank Mandiri will be able to execute the counter tradeprogram of the government with other countries.

21/04/2004 JAKARTA (Bisnis): Russia asks Indonesia to provide sixadditional commodities for the third payment of the RI-Russiacounter-trade. Three of the commodities are natural rubber, bleached pulpand methanol.