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29/01/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures dropped to their lowest in almost two weeks on Tuesday, hit by a decline in other vegetable oil prices and fragile equity markets, but a weak local currency helped curb losses.

29/01/2014 (Jakarta Globe) - Bumitama Agri is joining Indonesian oil-palm planters selling sukuk in Malaysia to take advantage of the nation’s tax breaks and to tap its record Shariah-compliant banking assets.

29/01/2014 (Bernama) - Felcra Bhd is looking to collaborate with foreign investors from Asia and the United States to develop its downstream business.

29/01/2014 (Jakarta Globe) - Dharma Satya Nusantara, a palm oil producer affiliated to businessman Theodore Permadi Rachmat, plans $80 million in capital expenditure this year to support expansion.

29/01/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil climbed the most in almost a week after a decline to a two-week low boosted the outlook for the tropical oil’s use in biofuels.

29/01/2014 (Business Times) - FELDA Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV), which is the world's largest crude palm oil producer, will announce its first acquisition for the year as part of its plans to expand upstream and downstream businesses, either in Southeast Asia or Africa in the first quarter of this year.

29/01/2014 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil dropped to the lowest level in almost two weeks on concern that exports from Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer, may fall on slowing demand for the tropical oil used in everything from food to fuel.

29/01/2014 (Business Recorder) - Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT.

28/01/2014 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures fell to their lowest in nearly two weeks on Monday as a fall in global shares curbed appetite for risky assets, but weak local currency reined in losses.

28/01/2014 (Jakarta Post) - The future of the palm oil industry will likely be uncertain this year due to a new regulation that came into effect last October, despite forecasts of favorable weather this year expected to increase output.

28/01/2014 (Bernama) - Pulp Green Tech Holding (PGT), an R&D focused company which owns Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd. (located and registered in Thailand), announces that it has successfully achieved a high-grade quality paper pulp, made of 100% palm oil waste material - the Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB). The technology is highly cost efficient and it enables investors, palm oil producers, and paper pulp mills to achieve ROI of over 100% in the first year of operation, assuming the pulp is sold at a price of comparable non-wood materials. Through the Thai Gorilla Pulp Ltd., it currently sells the palm pulp (or the end product made of palm pulp) to Europe, Malaysia, and locally in Thailand.

28/01/2014 (Bernama) - Pulp Green Tech Holding (PGT), a research and development company, has achieved high-grade quality paper pulp made from 100 per cent palm oil empty fruit bunch (EFB).