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10/10/2012 (Inquirer.net) - Malaysia’s Felda Global Ventures, the world’s largest crude palm oil producer, is the first foreign investor to evince interest in Mindanao after the government agreed on a historic peace deal with Moro rebels, potentially opening up tracts of farm land.

10/10/2012 (The Earth Times) - Whenever you want to complain about carbon emissions or global warming or loss of wildlife habitat, there\'s a one-stop-shop. It\'s the interminable progress of oil palm plantations in the Far East. We pay for them, as 30% of the cosmetic and food processing oils we use are from these very plantations.

10/10/2012 (Bloomberg) - Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer and second largest for rubber, should make agriculture more attractive for investors to improve food security, said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

10/10/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oil prices continued their bullish run on Tuesday, tracking sharp rise in futures.

09/10/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures closed down 2 percent on Monday as traders braced for rising inventory levels, offseting bargain-hunting seen earlier in the market after steep declines last week to a near three-year low.

09/10/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures, the world's largest crude palm oil producer, is the first foreign investor to evince interest in the southern Philippines after Manila agreed on a historic peace deal with Muslim rebels, potentially opening up tracts of farm land.

09/10/2012 (Bloomberg) - Expanding palm-oil production is driving rain-forest destruction in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, also known as Kalimantan, according to a study by researchers at Stanford and Yale universities.

09/10/2012 (FoodNavigator.com) - Growing demand for palm oil by the food industry is causing wide-spread rainforest destruction and enormous carbon dioxide emissions, according to new research.

09/10/2012 (The Sun Daily) - Malaysia will consider possible changes to its crude palm oil export tax regime on Friday, including limiting plantation expansion to support falling prices, a minister said on Monday.

09/10/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Palm oil shipments from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer, are poised to tumble the most in four months in October because of weak demand from importers.

09/10/2012 (Malay Mail) - Lion Forest Bhd’s wholly-owned subsidiary, LFIB Plantations Sdn Bhd, has entered into an agreement with PT Karya Tekhnik Utama and Kyosen Transport Pte Ltd to acquire the entire stake in Indonesia based PT Varita Majutama for RM197.63 million.

09/10/2012 (Tempo Interactive) - Jakarta:Recently listed crude palm oil (CPO) producer Provident Agro has set a target of CPO production at 72,000 tons. The target was not revised although environmental issues regarding the commodity have been a source of criticism in Europe and America.