Berita Arkib

06/08/2012 (Jakarta Post) - As the chief executive officer of the Singapore-based Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings Pte. Ltd., Angeline Ooi is in charge of the company that owns 70,000 hectares of palm plantations in South Sumatra and West Kalimantan. She recently talked with The Jakarta Post’s Amahl S. Azwar over her business venture in the country, saying that Indonesia still had a room for improvement in the future. Below are the excerpts from the interview.

06/08/2012 (The Star) - Countering the anti-palm oil lobby means debunking the myths of its propaganda. It’s like a scene from a movie. A young Caucasian blonde with her hair neatly slicked back under a headband is brushing her teeth in a YouTube video. She spits into the sink ... and blood splatters across the white ceramic surface.

06/08/2012 (Daily Express) - Swiss tourists on a pre-dawn cruise into Sungei Tenaggang to see the Proboscis monkeys on July 28 were horrified when they noticed long thick columns of black palm oil effluents snaking their way into the Kinabatangan.

06/08/2012 (The Star) - Major plywood mills in Sarawak are increasingly using wood residues to generate energy for their operations, according to Sarawak Timber Industry Development Corp (STIDC) industrial planning manager Nicholas Andrew Lissem.

06/08/2012 (New Staits Times) - On the heels of human clinical studies, funded by the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), that indicate tocotrienols found in palm fruit oil appear to reduce the severity of end-stage liver disease, new research has indicated that nearly 10 per cent of American teenagers have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

06/08/2012 (Hindu Business Line) - Select edible oil prices rose by Rs 100 per quintal in the wholesale oils and oilseeds market on Saturday on the back of buying by local parties on account of festive season.

06/08/2012 (The Sun Daily) - Malaysian authorities have been urged to help stop the slaughter of orang utans in Borneo.

04/08/2012 (Bernama) - TH Plantations Bhd's pre-tax profit dropped to RM24.753 million in the second quarter ended June 30, 2012 compared with RM54.24 million posted in the same period last year.

04/08/2012 (Bernama) - Share prices on Bursa Malaysia are expected to be higher next week riding on its resilience and defensive appeal amid rising global risk aversion, dealers said.

04/08/2012 (Bernama) - Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) and Sawit Kinabalu Saturday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance research of palm oil, especially in Sabah.

04/08/2012 (Business Recorder) - Growing demand for African palm oil, a key ingredient in cosmetics and processed foods, is fuelling deadly land disputes in the Honduran countryside, pitting large landowners against landless peasants.

04/08/2012 (Daily Express) - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has been urged to strictly enforce its regulations by instructing the Fruit Collection Centre (FCC) to reject the "unknown fruits", to curb fruit theft in oil palm estates and private lands occupied by illegal immigrants.