Berita Arkib

18/09/2012 (Bernama) - About 60 Malaysians living in this Romanian city had a meaningful celebration in conjunction with the 49th anniversary of Malaysia Day here, Sunday.

18/09/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Edible oils prices ruled weak on Monday due to lack of demand and bearish futures market. Imported palmolein dropped by Rs 4 and soyabean refined oil declined by Rs 5 for 10 kg. Cotton refined oil lost Rs 5, tracking bearish reports from producing centres. Groundnut oil, which made a further loss of Rs 20 in Saurashtra, ruled steady in local market. Rapeseed and sunflower oils were unchanged.

18/09/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - A senior Indonesian minister says the government should limit foreign ownership in crude palm oil plantations to encourage local participation in the sector.

18/09/2012 (Reuters) - CIMB Research said it expects the plantation sector's return on equity to hit bottom this year before recovering in 2013, despite a flat crude palm oil (CPO) p r ice assumption.

18/09/2012 (BusinessDay) - Abia State is regarded as the food basket of the South East geopolitical zone. The state has a highly diversified agro-ecological condition, which makes the production of a wide-range of agricultural products possible.

18/09/2012 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 135,475 tonnes of cargo comprising 105,685 tonnes of import cargo and 29,790 tonnes of export cargo including 4,533 loaded & empty containers during the last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Monday. The total import cargo of 105,685 tonnes comprised 39,996 tonnes of containerised cargo; 31,265 tonnes of bulk cargo: 22,500 tonnes of coal; 2,995 tonnes of DAP; 5,770 tonnes of rock phosphate and 34,424 tonnes of oil/liquid cargo.

18/09/2012 (The Star) - Sabah plans to adopt more stringent anti-pollution standards for wastewater generated by the palm oil industry, and mills are rising up to the challenge. Some palm oil mills have put up more intensive effluent treatment systems in order to comply with rules on cleaner discharges.

18/09/2012 (Daily Times) - The Pakistan Mercantile Exchange (PMEX) on Monday announced that a number of products are in the pipeline for futures trading on international commodities in gold, silver, crude oil, palm olien and futures on domestic commodities would be available in rice IRRI-6, sugar, wheat and in financial futures to include Karachi Inter-Bank Offered Rate (KIBOR) futures.

18/09/2012 (FoodNavigator.com) - Products labelled ‘no palm oil’ have proliferated on French supermarket shelves in recent years but Malaysian officials have said that such labels misrepresent an industry that has made strides toward greater sustainability, in a meeting with French officials last week.

17/09/2012 (The Sun Daily) - The government's policy to give out approved permits (AP) to certain palm oil exporters, exempting them from paying the 23% tax, has been put into question.

17/09/2012 (Mizo News) - Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla on Saturday laid the foundation for installation of Oil Palm Mill at Bukvangnei in Kolasib District.

17/09/2012 (Bloomberg) - Malaysia’s palm oil exports rose 12.2 percent in the first 15 days of September from the same period in August, independent market surveyor Intertek said.