Berita Arkib

24/05/2010 (The Star Online), Kota kinabalu - The Sabah Wildlife Department will be setting up a wildlife rescue unit.

24/05/2010 (Business Times) - THE sustainability criteria in the European Union (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED), due to come into force on December 5, will not affect Malaysia's palm oil exports to the region.

23/05/2010 (Bernama), Kota Kinabalu - The Sabah Wildlife Department has initiated the setting up of a Sabah Wildlife Rescue Unit which would be responsible for all wildlife rescue in the state.

21/05/2010 (Lankan Business Online) - A Sri Lankan business group with palm oil plantations in east Asia has said demand for the edible oil is likely to grow, driven mainly by China and India, with prices having stabilized at more realistic levels.

21/05/2010 (Ghana Web) - SUCCOUR has come the way of users of palm oil in Nigeria. Malaysia, the country, which took the oil palm seeds away from Nigeria several years ago, is planning to flood the market from its silos in Ghana.

21/05/2010 (Plant Talk.org) - Thanks to recent publicity many people are aware of the concerns of palm oil in foodstuffs, but surprisingly few are aware that it could be used to fuel power stations in the UK too. UK-based campaigner Zenith Milner tells us more.

20/05/2010 (WWF) - Several oil palm producers in Malaysia and Indonesia are facing scrutiny by NGOs for alleged violations of the principles and criteria for sustainable palm oil set out by the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), leading them to call for a rethink of this scheme in a decision that may challenge the RSPO and could hurt their economies in the long-run.

20/05/2010 (Comodities now.com) - Two new palm oil contracts launching in the United States and Indonesia may encounter difficulties similar to those experienced by benchmark Malaysian futures in growing liquidity. Success depends on whether planters from top palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as financial investors, see a justification in building up liquidity at a time of growing uncertainty in financial markets over the Eurozone debt crisis.

19/05/2010 (The Independent) - Nestlé, the world's biggest food manufacturer, says it will make the palm oil in its best-selling chocolate bars more eco-friendly, after a guerrilla campaign against it on the internet.

17/05/2010 (Guardian Sustainable Business) - Nestlé is to work with The Forest Trust to ensure its sourcing of palm oil is not contributing to illegal rainforest and peatland clearance. The move is being seen as unprecedented in the palm oil supply chain, although such partnerships have a proven track record for wood procurement.

17/05/2010 (CNET News) - An aggressive, meant-to-shock Facebook and YouTube campaign on behalf of Greenpeace has led food conglomerate Nestle to modify its policies regarding the use of palm oil.

17/05/2010 (TFT Forest.org) - The Forest Trust (TFT) announced today that Swiss consumer goods company Nestlé has agreed to a plan that will rid its products of palm oil purchased from suppliers whose activities are destroying vulnerable tropical forests in the developing world.