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11/08/2010 (Borneo Post Online), Kuching - The Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water will help University Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) develop state-of-the-art technology to treat oil palm wastes.

10/08/2010 (Mongabay.com) - An environmental audit of palm oil company, PT SMART, found that the company had not cut primary rainforest, yet had destroyed carbon-rich peatlands; however the audit analyzed only 40 percent of PT SMART's holdings and investigated none of its plantations in New Guinea. A subsidiary of agricultural giant Sinar Mas, PT SMART has been accused in a number of reports by Greenpeace of both destroying high conservation value forests and draining peatlands. Greenpeace's reports caused both food giants Unilever and Nestle to drop PT SMART as a supplier of their palm oil, while Cargill stated it would wait to hear the results of the audit. Given the audit's results, both sides are claiming victory.

11/08/2010 (Asia One Health), George Town - Palm oil is set to shed its negative image as more scientific researches on the commodity revealed its potential as a cure for many illnesses.

11/08/2010 (Business Standard) - Edible oil prices remained stable in the physical market here today, despite a steep fall in palm oil prices abroad. Traders held stocks in anticipation of a price rise, as the closure of the Mumbai port since the weekend is thought to have squeezed supply in Maharashtra and neighbouring states.

10/08/2010 (Biofuels Digest) - In the UK, a proposed biodiesel-run power plant in Bristol is under fire because campaigners are claiming that the palm oil used to generate electricity would cause environmental damage. Planning permission was denied in February by city councilors, which has triggered a public enquiry.

10/08/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil plunged the most in more than three months after reports showed that shipments from Malaysia, the second-biggest producer, declined this month.

10/08/2010 (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Indonesia\'s biggest palm oil producer says it has been cleared of allegations made by environmental group Greenpeace that it had destroyed high conservation-value forests on Borneo.

10/08/2010 (Economic Times), Mumbai - Indian soyoil futures eased on Tuesday, after reaching their highest level in nearly 15 months in the previous session, as weakness in palm oil prompted profit-taking, analysts said. Soybean futures also fell on profit-taking driven by higher acreage under oilseeds and favourable weather, but an improvement in meal exports limited the downside. Rapeseed futures erased early losses and rose nearly 1 percent on strong demand and an estimated fall in the output, they said.

10/08/2010 (Bernama), George Town - Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) is in the midst of studying the use of the palm oil extract known as tocotrienol in the treatment of chronic diseases such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

10/08/2010 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Palm oil stocks dropped 3.13 per cent in July 2010 to 1.405 million tonnes as against 1.451 million tonnes registered in preceding June, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB).

10/08/2010 (Bloomberg) - An independent study cleared Sinar Mas Group, the world’s second-biggest palm oil producer, of destroying rainforests in Indonesia, according to a statement from PT Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology Tbk.

10/08/2010 (Mission New Energy Limited) - Mission NewEnergy Limited (ASX:MBT), a vertically integrated biodiesel producer, is pleased to announce that its biodiesel facility in Kuantan Port Malaysia has commenced commercial production of crude palm oil-based biodiesel for a new European Union (EU) based customer. In May 2010, the Company announced that it had commissioned its second 250,000 tons-per-annum (approximately 75 million gallons per annum) facility. The total combined production capacity of its facilities is 350,000 tons-per-annum (approximately 105 million gallons per annum).