Berita Arkib

07/03/2013 (Bloomberg) - India, the world’s largest cooking oil consumer after China, is poised to increase taxes on imports at least twice this year to protect oilseed growers, according to Dorab Mistry, director at Godrej International Ltd.

07/03/2013 (Bernama) - Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV) said its palm oil refineries in Sabah are still in operation.

07/03/2013 (Bernama) - Malaysia-Vietnam bilateral trade increased significantly last year, rising by 25.3 per cent to reach US$9.03 billion, said the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).

07/03/2013 (Philippine Information Agency) - The Department of Energy (DOE) will be implementing a feasibility study on the use of secondhand vegetable oil to power vehicles in the country.

07/03/2013 (Ukr Agro Consult) - Rapidly declining growth in the global biodiesel market is set to continue in the coming years, which will further hit the profits of palm oil producers, who are already suffering at the hands of sliding prices.

07/03/2013 (Sky News) - The deaths of thousands of orangutans amid widespread environmental degradation have been laid at the door of the oil palm industry.

07/03/2013 (The Star) - Renowned commodity trader Dorab Mistry expects the price of the local crude palm oil (CPO) to turn volatile during the upcoming general election period, with the CPO futures on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives trading at RM2,300 to RM2,500 per tonne until end-April before turning more bearish to possibly hit RM2,200 per tonne in the second quarter.

07/03/2013 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil declined for a third day on concern that near-record high stockpiles in Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer, will further curb prices.

07/03/2013 (This Dish Is Veg) - The photo is heartbreaking. A frightened baby elephant anxiously nuzzling its mother\'s lifeless body, trying in vain to wake her. No, the adult elephant didn\'t die of natural causes. Nor was she killed by poachers for her ivory tusks. What has turned elephant calves into orphans and left entire elephant families decimated is much more mundane, but no less tragic: palm oil.

06/03/2013 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures ended flat in thin volume on Wednesday, with investors digesting price forecasts by top analysts at the industry\'s biggest annual gathering to determine their strategies.

06/03/2013 (The Star) - Malaysian government official said his country will draft a new labelling strategy to reassure consumers in the EU.

06/03/2013 (The Star) - The Malaysia Palm Oil Council (MPOC) expects crude palm oil (CPO) price for this year to trade between RM2,500 and RM3,200 a tonne.