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Budget 2025 adjustments in export tax seen helping palm oil refining industry be more competitive
CPO FUTURES HIT TWO-YEAR HIGH ON BULLISH SENTIMENT, STRONG EXPORTS
CPO price strength could dissipate through end-2024, says BMI
CPO price forecast to climb for rest of the year
MPOB To Help Build 3 Bio-Diesel Plants
12/12/05 PUTRAJAYA, (Bernama) -- In support of the government's move towards renewable energy supply, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Monday entered into agreements with three companies, namely Rubiatec Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Golden Hope Plantations Bhd; Kumpulan Fima Bhd and; Carotino Sdn Bhd for the development of three bio-diesel plants.
Indonesia And Malaysia Can't Fix CPO Prices
12/12/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - The Asean Vegetables Oil Club (AVOC) said it is impossible for Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's largest and second largest producers of crude palm oil [CPO], to set the price of the commodity
Kellogg's Trans-Fat Tradeoff
12/12/05 (Financial Times) - With a new Food and Drug Administration labeling guideline just weeks away, Kellogg (NYSE: K - News) disclosed Friday that it will replace oils high in trans fatty acids in some of its products with a new soy oil that promises to cut or eliminate trans fat content.
Don't Interfere, Masing Tells NCR Landowners
11/12/05 KANOWIT (Bernama) -- Sarawak Land Development Minister Datuk Dr James Jemut Masing is concerned over the tendency among some landowners and politicians to interfere in the running of oil palm plantations on native customary right (NCR) lands in the state.
Local supplies to trim Indian edible oil imports
10/12/2005 NEW DELHI, (Reuters): Good domestic supplies and stocks are expected to trim India's edible oil imports by more than 100,000 tonnes in November-January, or around 15 per cent, trade and industry officials said yesterday.
Duty duel jars Asean symphony
12/12/05 Kuala Lumpur, (The Tetegaph) - A duty duel is raging amid a diplomatic scramble to carve out a pan-Asian free trade area.
Settlers told to improve status
13/12/05 (The Star) - PUTRAJAYA: Felda settlers, who will get RM97mil in bonus payments by the end of the month, must strive harder to be either in the middle-income or lower middle-income group, said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Govt to proceed with huge plantation plan
11/12/05 (Jakarta Post) JAKARTA: - The government says it will stick to its plan to clear 1.8 million hectares of forest on the Indonesian-Malaysian borders in Kalimantan despite the discovery of a rare carnivore, dubbed the Beast of Borneo, in the island's forests recently.
OUTLOOK 06:Palm Oil Sales To Rise On U.S, China Demand
6/12/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Palm oil prices found a new supportive factor when anticipated demand from the biofuels sector altered the dynamics of palm oil pricing in 2005.
