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26-11-2019
S. Korea, China, Japan to hold fresh round of FTA talks in Seoul
Senior trade officials from South Korea, China and Japan will hold a fresh round of talks this week on forging a free trade deal among the three Asian neighbors, Seoul's trade ministry said Tuesday.
26-11-2019
Palm oil and sustainable development practices
No other country in the world has mandated their oil and fats industry to be certified 100%, especially when it involves smallholders – and we have 40% of them. But Malaysia has taken this lead just like its Rio’s pledge to keep 50% of its relatively small land mass under forest cover for the benefit of global communities.
26-11-2019
Palm Oil’s Price Switch Won’t Save the Orangutan
The price of palm oil has been surging, sending its discount to soybean-oil futures from more than $150 a metric ton six weeks ago to less than $26 a ton on Friday.
26-11-2019
CPO price rally could last until early 2020
THE rally in the price of crude palm oil (CPO) has the legs to sustain until early 2020, as the supply shortage heightens coupled with the government’s mandate to implement the higher percentage of CPO in its biodiesel programme.
26-11-2019
Indonesia fires emitted double the carbon of Amazon fires, research shows
Fires from land and forest fires across Indonesia this year have pumped at least 708 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — almost double the emissions from the fires that swept through the Brazilian Amazon this year.
26-11-2019
Palm-oil prices surging as trade politics bites
If you see a flowering of “palm-oil-free†labels on supermarket shelves in 2020, then thank Indonesian drivers, President Donald Trump’s trade negotiators and sickly pigs in China
26-11-2019
Malaysian tech making waves in US oil palm-based supplements
A new Malaysian technology is making waves in the US and helping spread the word on sustainable palm oil there.
25-11-2019
Jokowi orders shakeup of state energy giant to cut oil imports
NDONESIAN President Joko Widodo ordered an overhaul of the management of state-owned oil giant PT Pertamina, as the former Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) member seeks to reduce crude oil imports to rein in the current account deficit
25-11-2019
Sandip Somany backs India's decision to pull out of RCEP, says it shows the country's rising stature in the world
Sandip Somany, president, FICCI, says pulling out of the RCEP shows India’s decision to safeguard its own interests.
25-11-2019
Revamping Nigeria’s oil palm production for economic development
Despite the availability of over three million hectares of farmland for palm oil cultivation, production remains low at close to two tons per hectare, relative to a global benchmark of 25 tons per hectare.
25-11-2019
Palm oil prices likely to rise in next 3 months
Indonesia and Malaysia may increase bio-diesel content in automotive fuels.
25-11-2019
Growing palm oil on former farmland cuts deforestation, COâ‚‚ and biodiversity loss
Few natural products are as maligned as palm oil, the vegetable oil that’s in everything from chocolate spread to washing up liquid. On the island of Borneo, oil palm plantations have replaced nearly 40% of the native forest cover since 2000.