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AI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres
CPO prices to stay elevated on firm demand and tight supply
CPO price dip seen as temporary, stocks to rise in November: CIMB Securities
Malaysian palm oil futures fall under fundamental pressure, amplifying the impact on other oil prices
Amid trans-fat fears, companies turn to Dr. Fehr's beans
3/10/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) AMES, Iowa -- In his cramped lab at Iowa State University here, Walt Fehr developed a soybean whose oil could help eliminate one of the biggest problems facing the food industry today: trans fats blamed for everything from heart disease to hypertension to memory loss.
Thick Smog In Indonesia's Jambi Province Uncontrollable
JAMBI, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting Sunday with a number of head of agencies and related authorities under his administration to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, caused by forest and oil palm plantation fire.
Ban on paraquat lifted for study
2/10/06 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The ban on the herbicide paraquat will be temporarily lifted from Nov 1, to allow a comprehensive study on its many uses
Protesters: Project will make us lose our land
2/10/06 (The Star) - KENINGAU: A proposed mini estate to benefit the poor in this interior Sabah district has instead got a group of farmers up in arms as they claim the project will cause them to lose the land they had been tilling for more than two decades.
Brazil banks on biodiesel as the next big thing in green energy
29/09/06 (Detroit News) PORTO NACIONAL, Brazil -- For the better part of his 64 years, Sebastian Luis de Sousa has scratched a meager living in the paprika-red soil of central Brazil.
Indonesia to offer 17 mln hectares of forest concessions
28/09/06 JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia plans to offer some 17 million hectares (42 million acres) of lapsed or unused forest concessions to investors interested in developing timber and farming
Strict Government Control Characterizes Chinese Biofuel Development
28/09/06 (Agexporter) - While China views biofuel production as an essential and strategic component of a secure economy and diversified energy policy, concerns about the impact on food self-sufficiency have slowed development of the biofuel sector.
S Korea pips Japan, China as Asian biodiesel market
28/09/06 (The Edge News) - South Korea is beating Japan and China in its push into the emerging biodiesel industry thanks to a government mandate that has opened a small but expanding market for the green fuel from Southeast Asia.
Lower oil price may hurt commercial viability of biodiesel
26/9/06 (The Star) - PETALING JAYA: The decline in oil prices will benefit airlines but could adversely affect biodiesel ventures by commodity-based companies, analysts said.
