Berita Arkib

08/07/2011 (Bernama) - The government has identified 35 types of essential items placed under the Price Control and Anti-Profiteering Act 2011 following the hike in prices of these goods.

08/07/2011 (Borneo Post) - The High Court here dismissed with costs a suit brought by a group of natives against the state government and four other defendants, seeking RM500 million over the alleged denial to their customary rights to a 5,000-acre land planted with oil palm in Semporna.

08/07/2011 (Bernama) - Transformation of the Kota Marudu economy will continue to be driven by the agriculture sector through the adoption and infusion of modern crops and technologies, said Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Seri Dr Maximus Ongkili.

07/07/2011 (Bernama) – Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, Minister of Plantation Industries & Commodities, presented the fourth Palm Oil Industry Leadership Award (PILA) to Tan Sri Datuk Dr Augustine Ong Soon Hock, former Director General of PORIM (now known as MPOB), at the annual Malaysian Palm Oil Council’s Leadership Dinner held in Kuala Lumpur on 5 July, 2011.

07/07/2011 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil, little changed, may advance after a recent slump in prices widened the discount to soybean oil making it a cheaper option and as yesterday’s jump in crude oil lifted the appeal of vegetable oils as biofuel feedstock.

07/07/2011 (Bangkok Post) - Plans by the Pheu Thai Party to scrap the state Oil Fund could result in a palm oil surplus and low prices for fresh palm nuts, as there would be no incentive to make biodiesel from the output, warns a senior Agriculture Ministry official.

07/07/2011 (Tempo Interactive) - State plantation company, PT Perkebunan Negara IVX (PTPN), is managing productive land in Sulawesi to transform it into an oil palm development and crude palm oil (CPO) production center.

07/07/2011 (Bernama) - Malaysian Rating Corporation Bhd (MARC) has maintained Malaysia's gross domestic product growth target at 5.3 per cent for this year from 7.2 per cent last year.

07/07/2011 (BBC News) - Campaigners in Dorset have been protesting against plans for a biofuel power station on Portland.

07/07/2011 (Borneo Post) - Sarawak’s plans to double the amount of land earmarked for oil palm plantations will act as a key driver for the state’s economic development, says Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Alfred Jabu, Deputy Chief Minister and also state Minister of Modernisation of Agriculture and Minister of Rural Development.

07/07/2011 (Borneo Post) - In an ongoing bid to spur economic activities, Sarawak is well underway in attracting energy intensive industries to invest in its regional activities in its regional corridor namely the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (SCORE).

07/07/2011 (Jakarta Post) - The Coalition of Anti-Plantation Mafia in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, allege corruption in oil palm plantations belonging to five companies in Sambas and Bengkayang.