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08/05/2014 (Bernama) - Malaysia's trade in March rose by 4.6 per cent to RM120.46 billion from the same month last year, boosted by higher exports versus imports, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said today.

07/05/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures edged lower on Tuesday, extending a losing streak into a fifth straight day as weakness in comparable markets overseas weighed on the tropical oil.

07/05/2014 (Bloomberg) - Colombia’s palm-oil exports will climb to a six-year high in 2014 after first-quarter production beat expectations, Oil World said.

07/05/2014 (Indonesia Investments) - Indonesian companies engaged in the production of crude palm oil (CPO) recorded impressive financial figures in the first quarter of 2014. Combined, 13 CPO companies that are listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange posted IDR 3 trillion (USD $260.9 million) in net profits over the first quarter of 2014, a 116.1 percentage growth from the same period last year. Main reasons for this growth are the sharply depreciated Indonesian rupiah exchange rate in combination with the rising global CPO price and looming new El Niño cycle.

07/05/2014 (How we made it in Africa) - With a capital injection from global investors, a long-abandoned palm oil plantation and mill in Daru, Sierra Leone, is expected to produce over 5,000 tons of palm oil in 2014, and permanently employ more than 400 people.

07/05/2014 (Reuters) - Indonesia's palm oil output is expected to exceed 28 million tonnes this year, industry groups said on Tuesday, adding any impact from the El Nino weather phenomenon forecast for this year is unlikely to affect production until 2015.

07/05/2014 (Reuters) - The following factors are likely to influence Malaysian palm oil futures and other vegetable oil markets.

07/05/2014 (RTT News) - New Britain Palm Oil (NBPO.L), a producer of sustainable palm oil, said first-quarter profit before tax, excluding IAS 41, surged to $21.4 million from $4.8 million in the previous year.

07/052014 (StockMarketWire.com) - R.E.A. Holdings' harvest of oil palm fresh fruit bunches totalled 205,847 tonnes for the four-month period to the end of April, compared with 178,385 tonnes a year ago.

07/05/2014 (Daily Times Nigeria) - Vice Chancellor of University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, has said that the Nigerian University would soon establish an oil palm plantation of more than 1,000 hectares.

07/05/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil stockpiles in Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest supplier, probably advanced for a second month as output climbed to the highest level since December.

07/05/2014 (Mongabay.com) - Genting Plantations Bhd's stock price fell by more than two percent after the palm oil company's membership in the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) was suspended due to a complaint from the Borneo Rhino Alliance for failing to abide by the body's principles on establishing new plantations, reports The Edge Financial Daily.