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MPOB Monthly Report Imminent: Malaysia's Palm Oil Stockpiles May Surge Past 2.6 Million Tonnes as Strong El Niño Fuels Distant-Month Supply Cut Expectations
CPO futures end mostly higher on soybean oil gains
Malaysian end of July palm oil stocks hit near two-year high
Palm oil maintains its price advantage over soybean oil, but only through the end of summer
Basir Ismail dies at 80
20/107 (NSTP) - TAIPING: Tan Sri Basir Ismail, one of the country's leading corporate figures, died early yesterday.
Plantations: Floods have minimal impact on earnings
21/1/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUUR: LISTED plantation companies with large oil palm estates in flood-struck Johor expect the disaster to have a negligible impact on their full year earnings for 2006 and 2007.
Flood boon to CPO
22/1/07 (The Star) - FOREIGN brokerages expect the flood situation in Johor to give a short-term boost in the price of crude palm oil (CPO).
Cutting trans fats confounds chains
21/1/07 ( Pioneer Press) ATLANTA - Unhappy customers started calling soon after McDonald's announced plans in 2002 to reduce trans fats in french fries.
EU bio-fuel demand threatens Indonesian forests
18/1/07 JAKARTA (AFP) - Growing European Union demand for bio-fuel could threaten Indonesia's last remaining forests as the government approves new palm oil plantations, environmental group Greenpeace warned.
Malaysian firm launches IPO for first-ever oil palm plantation
15/1/07 (AP) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Boustead Properties on Monday launched a 229.7 million ringgit (US$64.5 million, Ã?54 million) initial public offer of Malaysia's first-ever oil palm plantation real estate investment trust.
500 from 7 Nabawan kampungs claim losing titled lands
17/1/07 (Daily Express News) NABAWAN - Some 500 residents representing seven kampungs have voiced their objections against the acquisition of their land - including their school, cemetery, kampungs and titled lands - by a private company for oil palm and rubber cultivation.
Malaysian plantation mega-merger hits snag
16/1/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A 9.0 billion dollar merger of three Malaysian plantation companies to create the world's largest listed palm oil firm has hit a snag, with their majority shareholder getting cold feet, a report has said.
PM: Plantations merger deal to go on
17/1/07 (The Star) - PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will go ahead with plans to merge three plantations firms to create the world's largest listed oil palm planter, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
