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The increasing cost of living, shrinking ringgit, falling palm oil prices and unfulfilled elections promises seem to be the talked about issues among Malaysians.

After Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and President Xi Jinping held a Malaysia-China bilateral meeting on April 25, a journalist who had worked in Beijing for four years Whatsapped me a photograph of both leaders greeting each other happily.

Crude palm oil (CPO) futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives are likely to trade within a tight range of between RM2,050 and RM2,150 a tonne next week on lack of fresh leads, said a dealer.

Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok (pic) is leading a palm oil economic and promotion mission from May 3-13 to London (United Kingdom), Brussels (Belgium), Berlin (Germany), and Rome (Italy).

By refinancing a RM595.5mil facility tied to the Children’s Specialist Hospital located at Hospital UKM in Kuala Lumpur, the government has saved some RM80mil.

A delegation of indigenous representatives from Sarawak is currently in Europe to “expose the Malaysian palm oil industry’s detrimental practices”, the Swiss-based Bruno Manser Fund said in a statement today.

Nestlé the world’s largest food and beverage corporation, says that by 2020 there will be no more deforestation linked to its products and embedded in its supply chains. That’s an ambitious goal for the Swiss multinational, which now is making progress by monitoring oil palm plantations from the sky

Anyone lucky enough to visit Ghana could do worse than order a plate of boiled yam and red-red—a stew made with beans and tomato paste. A Sunday morning treat in Europe might be homemade crepes and hazelnut chocolate spread. Both of these meals—though part of very different cuisines and eaten in different places—contain palm oil, an edible vegetable oil extracted from the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).

Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier gains to close 1 per cent down on Friday, falling on bearish production outlooks to chart the biggest weekly drop since early November.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s move to suspend export duties on crude palm oil (CPO) until Dec 31, 2019 will help to improve Malaysia’s CPO export competitiveness to clear the nation's current high stock level, CIMB Equities Research said.

JAKARTA: The Indonesia Biodiesel Producers Association (APROBI) estimates the country may export up to 2 million kilolitres (kl) of unblended biodiesel in 2019 in an "optimistic scenario", Vice Chairman Paulus Tjakrawan told reporters on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian palm oil futures fell nearly 4 percent on Thursday evening to their lowest in almost five months, weighed down by weakness in U.S. soyoil prices on the Chicago Board of Trade and weak demand sentiment.