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14/06/2010 (Inwent.org) - DEVELOPING A global strategy to support smaller palm oil businesses and minimizing negative environmental impacts would help future interventions in Ghana as well as the West African region, says International Finance Corporation (IFC) Principal Strategist on Global Manufacturing, Mark Constantine.

10/06/2010 (Bernama), Kota Kinabalu - Palmex Malaysia 2010, touted as Malaysia's largest palm oil technology expo, is expecting to gather over 5,000 industry professionals who will address the strategic, operational and technology aspects of Sabah and Asean's palm oil industry.

10/06/2010 (Agrimoney) - Palm oil prices fell in Kuala Lumpur despite official data showing that Malaysia's stocks of the vegetable oil have fallen by further than analysts expected to the lowest in eight months.

10/06/2010 (Commodity Online), Washington - Palm Oil is the most efficient vegetable oil for biofuel and the campaign that coversion of forests for palm oil leads to widespread increases in emissions in misleading, according to the NGO World Growth.

10/06/2010 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia aims to boost palm oil industry's output to the gross domestic product (GDP) to RM21.9 billion, with RM69.3 billion in exports earnings during the 10th Malaysia Plan period (2011-2015).

10/06/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - An international conference on climate change and forests, held recently in Oslo, Norway, has agreed to provide US$1 billion in assistance to Indonesia to protect the country’s tropical rainforests.

09/06/2010 (Bloomberg) - China, the world’s biggest user of cooking oils, is buying U.S. soybean oil after imports from Argentina were halted because of a trade dispute, two traders with direct knowledge of the transactions said.

09/06/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil futures dropped for a third day after Brazil, the world’s second-largest producer of rival soybeans, raised its crop forecast.

09/06/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - The government should protect the palm oil industry, which is facing various threats and challenges, including a recent moratorium on the conversion of primary forests and peatlands for oil palm plantations, says an association.

08/06/2010 (eco-business.com) - FROM cooking oil to soap, palm oil plays a ubiquitous role in the average Singaporean’s daily life.

08/06/2010 (Bernama) - Malaysia is inviting investors from China to explore downstream investments in Lahad Datu Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC Lahad Datu) in Sabah, says Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok.

08/06/2010 (The Jakarta Post), Jakarta - PT Barito Pacific is expanding its newly-established palm oil business by investing a total of Rp 800 billion (US$86.4 million) in plantations and building two factories.