Berita Arkib

18/08/2012 (The Star) - Ta Ann Holdings Bhd's earnings fell 73.7% to RM13.32mil in the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 from RM50.73mil a year ago due to lower sales by oil palm and timber segments, but it expected the second half to be better.

18/08/2012 (Ghana News Agency) - A group of farmers supplying oil palm fruit bunches to the Obourma Oil Palm Mill at Darmang in the Kwaebibirem District have complained about delays by the company to pay them for the fruit bunches supplied.

18/08/2012 (Stock Market Wire) - Anglo-Eastern Plantations subsidiary PT Sawit Graha Manunggal has agreed a US$35m loan with PT Bank DBS Indonesia to develop the Kalimantan plantation.

18/08/2012 (Jakarta Post) - State-owned PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) disbursed Rp 4.99 trillion (US$525.37 million) in corporate loans to palm oil companies in the first half of the year, almost double the same figure last year.

18/08/2012 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil is set to drop 8.8 percent to the lowest level in 22 months as a slowdown in China and India, the top users, curbs demand and rising Malaysian output boosts inventories, said an analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

17/08/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian crude palm oil futures edged up to a near 2-week high on Thursday as exports staged a tentative recovery, signalling stocks could come under pressure.

17/08/2012 (Reuters) - India imported 112,611 tonnes of refined palm oil in July, down 9.28 percent from June and slightly above the average of a Reuters poll, data released by a leading trade body showed on Thursday.

17/08/2012 (Reuters) - India's refined palm oil imports fell 9.3 percent in July in the second straight monthly decline as importers feared the world's biggest buyer would raise duties on purchases to cut cheap supplies from Indonesia,industry data showed on Thursday.

17/08/2012 (Jakarta Globe) - Salim Ivomas Pratama and London Sumatra Indonesia, plantation units of the Indofood Group, have seen profits tumble on falling global palm oil prices.

17/08/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - The Coconut Development Board has sought a ban on palm oil import in view of the steep fall in coconut oil prices.

17/08/2012 (Reuters) - India's vegetable oil imports in July were 870,328 tonnes, up 11.1 percent from the previous month, data from the Solvent Extractors' Association (SEA) showed on Thursday.

17/08/2012 (Mongabay.com) - Palm oil production need not come at the expense of the environment, says Greenpeace in a new campaign that highlights a smallholder approach used by a community in Riau Province on the island of Sumatra.