Berita Arkib

01/08/2011 (The Australian) - ALTHOUGH the Malaysian government has signed up to an asylum-seeker deal with Australia, it has at the same time sent a minister to lobby against a parliamentary move he says threatens his country\'s biggest rural industry, palm oil.

01/08/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - Profits at some of the largest companies in Indonesia rose in the second quarter, boosting the case that the economy grew during that period.

29/07/2011 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil prices fell further by Rs 8.60 per kg in futures trade today, largely in tandem with a weakening trend overseas amid adequate stocks in the spot markets.

29/07/2011 (Reuters) - Malaysian planter IOI Corporation Berhad said on Thursday that its subsidiary would buy 11,977.91 hectares of oil palm plantation land for 830 million ringgit ($282 million) to boost its land bank.

29/07/2011 (Bernama) - Malaysia as a whole, and Sabah in particular, are no longer destinations for cheap labour in the oil palm sector, said state Industrial Development Minister, Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah.

29/07/2011 (Manila Buletin) – Authorities here told visiting officials from the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) that Malaysia’s Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) is in need of some 40,000 workers in its expanding palm oil farms, and that Filipinos are given preference.

29/07/2011 (The Star) - IOI Corp Bhd, through an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary, Sri Mayvin Plantation Sdn Bhd, has proposed to acquire 11,977.91ha of oil palm plantation land in Sabah from Pertama Land & Development Sdn Bhd for RM830mil.

29/07/2011 (Bloomberg) - Shares of the following companies had unusual moves in Indonesian trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses, and prices are as of 4 p.m. Jakarta-time close.

28/07/2011 (The Star) - The proposed merger of AIC Corp Bhd, Jotech Holdings Bhd and AutoV Corp Bhd will be done via a share swap that would be priced at a slight premium over the last traded market prices of all three companies, a source close to the deal said.

28/07/2011 (Bernama) - Malaysian Palm Oil Council's chief executive Tan Sri Datuk Dr Yusof Basiron has lashed out at the treatment of orang utans at the Melbourne Zoo here, describing it as deplorable and a disgrace.

28/07/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil climbed for the second day on speculation that worsening soybean crop conditions in the U.S. may boost demand for the tropical oil.

28/07/2011 (Jakarta Globe) - Plantation companies including Astra Agro Lestari and BW Plantation reported a surge in first-half profits, suggesting other producers of crude palm oil are likely to meet or exceed analysts’ estimates.