Berita Arkib

27/05/2011 (Business Dailly) - Manufacturers of cooking oil have secured an alternative shipment of palm oil— the key raw material used in processing— calming fears of an imminent shortage at a time when producers are running out of stocks.

27/05/2011 (Sierra Express Media) - Director General of UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Kandeh Yumkella, along with a high powered delegation from the Peacebuilding Commission and the UN family in Sierra Leone, has handed over a Palm Oil processing plant and solar-powered Business Information and Communication (BIC) platform to the Sierra Leone Agri-Business Initiative (SABI) centre in Newton, Rural Freetown on Africa Day (May 25th ) 2011.

27/05/2011 (Bernama) -- Sarawak oil palm and timber giant, Ta Ann Holdings Bhd, is planning for more automation of its oil palm estates to counter labour shortage.

27/05/2011 (The Guardian) - A sensor inside Unilever's Lifebuoy soap bar is going to help the company change how millions of customers behave.

27/05/2011 (The Star) - far too long, the people of several longhouses in Machan area near Kanowit have been living without treated water.

‘26/05/2011 (Free Malaysia Today) - The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has been urged to stop issuing sustainability certificates to IOI Corporation until it has reached an amicable agreement with the native community in Long Teran Kanan, Sarawak.

26/05/2011 (Share Cast) - Palm oil refiner, Biofutures, posted full year losses of £902,000, due to an increase in employee and administrative costs at its Malaysian operation.

26/05/2011 (Reuters) - Palm oil firms in Indonesia can overcome a two-year ban on forest clearing by tapping into land reserves, but they face bigger problems attracting the labor needed to work the soil and boost yields.

26/05/2011 (Bernama) - The Vision 2020 deadline is just nine years away, so Malaysia has to fast track many of its development programmes to reach the country's true economic potential.

26/05/2011 (Jakarta Post) - We attended a Finance Minister’s analysts meeting last week. Note that it has been a year since Agus Martowardojo replaced Sri Mulyani as Indonesia’s finance minister, and Friday was the first time he decided to provide an analysts gathering.

26/05/2011 (Worldcrunch) - Here in one of India's biggest cities, the massive headquarters of Apollo Hospitals dominates the downtown skyline. Based in this southeastern city of Chennai (formerly called Madras), Apollo - a private hospital chain - is renowned for its high-level medical specialists.

25/05/2011 (FoodNavigator.com) - Certificates, mass balance and fully segregated palm oil options are not mutually exclusive, but all serve to ensure flexibility in an extremely complex supply chain, claims GreenPalm.