Berita Arkib

21/04/2012 (Business Recorder) - The Karachi Port handled 102,530 tonnes of cargo comprising1 82,590 tonnes of import cargo and 19,940 tonnes of export cargo including 1,999 loaded & empty containers during last 24 hours ended at 0700 hours on Friday.

21/04/2012 (New Straits Times) - Time to get new furniture? Consider furniture made of palm wood. According to William Wong, director of Palm Wood Technology, the wood comes from palms that are felled after they can no longer produce fruit. Thus using such wood helps save the environment indirectly. By using palm wood, he says, we will be doing our part to preserve Nature as we won’t need to cut down trees in the jungle.

21/04/2012 (Reuter) - Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier losses to end higher on Friday on last minute buying, although traders remained wary over the weak global economy and slowing export data.

20/04/2012 (Reuters) - A Malaysian farmers' investment cooperative (KPF) voted in favour of a $2 billion listing of a state-linked palm oil firm, a government minister said on Thursday, in the face of objections from the opposition.

20/04/2012 (Reuters) - Malaysian palm oil futures closed slightly lower on Thursday, recouping most of their losses after Spain sold as many bonds as it wanted, which helped calm fears about the euro zone economy but concerns about slowing demand kept prices lower.

20/04/2012 (Bloomberg) - PT Astra Agro Lestari, Indonesia’s biggest listed plantation company by market value, accepted bids for 5,000 metric tons of 9,000 tons of palm oil it offered at an auction in Jakarta.

20/04/2012 (The Star) - Despite the expectation of slower earnings growth in the financial year ending June 30, 2013 (FY13) following a sterling performance thus far, news flow on potential corporate actions such as spin-offs and mergers and acquisition could attract investors to diversified group Sime Darby Bhd.

20/04/2012 (Business Recorder) - A bearish target of 3,402 ringgit per tonne remains unchanged for Malaysian palm oil, provided it does not suddenly jump to 3,520 ringgit.

20/04/2012 (The Star) - The controversial Koperasi Permodalan Felda (KPF) EGM ended on a positive note yesterday with a majority of the representatives voting in favour of Felda's investment arm, Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd's (FGVH) listing on the main market of Bursa Malaysia.

20/04/2012 (The Star) - Malaysian businesses can start bidding from today for locally developed innovations that have the potential to yield up to RM1bil in revenue.

20/04/2012 (Fresh Food Portal) - Supermarket giant Walmart plans to elminate unsustainable palm oil from all its private label products by 2015.

20/04/2012 (Bernama) - Kampung Hujung sea cucumber farmers in Jambongan Island have expressed concern over the plan by a company to set up a palm oil processing plant on the island, saying the move would affect their livelihood.