Berita Arkib

19/03/2013 (Bernama) - Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak will launch the 2012 National Transformation Programme(NTP) Annual Report on Tuesday.

19/03/2013 (The Star) - Indonesia should be commended on its steady progress in awarding 10 plantation companies representing the first batch with the Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) certification recently.

19/03/2013 (PRNewswire) - Several Western-based NGOs have attacked palm oil production and foreign investment that supports industry growth in Africa. NGOs including Greenpeace and UK Rainforest Foundation have attacked palm oil cultivation in Africa for having detrimental environmental impacts.

18/03/2013 (Hindu Business Line) - Malaysian palm oil futures on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives exchange ended higher on Friday on short-covering and bargain-hunting with market participants expecting seasonally lower production.

18/03/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil dropped on speculation that stockpiles in Malaysia will hold near a record as an export tax curbs demand and on concern that a levy on Cyprus’s bank deposits may throw Europe back into crisis.

16/03/2013 (Borneo Post) - After a slow year in 2012, Malaysian officials expect exports of crude palm oil (CPO) to expand in 2013. Prices that have fallen due to oversupply and slower demand are now on the rise again, and though they may moderate in the second half of the year, an average steady climb over the next two years seems likely.

18/03/2013 (Grocer) - Cut-throat competition between British grocers is hampering the UK’s switch to sustainable palm oil.

18/03/2013 (Borneo Post) - The palm oil industry is receiving mixed signals from players across the globe. While certain factions are bearish about the industry’s future growth, others are optimistic that it will become bullish going forward.

18/03/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysia is to impose a 4.5 per cent export tax on crude palm oil (CPO) for April, unchanged from March, according to a circular from the Malaysian Royal Customs Department posted on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website today.

18/03/2013 (New Straits Times) - A total of 24 development projects under the Sabah Development Corridor (SDC) worth nearly RM1 billion have been implemented since December last year.

18/03/2013 (CITY A.M) - Palm oil developing company DekelOil is to list on London’s junior stock market this morning after raising £1.7m.

18/03/2013 (fnbnews.com) - World Growth, a pro-development NGO, recently released a report titled Costs and Challenges of Small Farmer Certification, which shows how a campaign to dictate how palm oil should be produced will harm both small farmers in Southeast Asia who produce 40 per cent of the world’s palm oil and low-income consumers in India who constitute one of the world’s biggest markets for palm oil.