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12/04/2010 (Times Of India), Mumbai - The strengthening of Indian rupee against the dollar could bring some cheer to fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) companies which are challenged by fading benefits of lower raw material costs.

11/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - India may overtake China as the world’s top importer of vegetable oil, and growth in the two nations’ consumption will drive global demand for palm and soybean oil, according to Cofco Ltd., China’s biggest grain trader.

11/04/2010 (Times Online, UK) - The renewable-energy industry faces new controversy after a Northamptonshire firm became the latest to win planning permission to burn tropical palm oil to make electricity.

10/04/2010 (NST Online) - Professor Dr Chandan Sen of Ohio State University in the United States tells OOI TEE CHING how the role of palm oil vitamin E tocotrienols in preventing brain cell death after a stroke

10/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - Sime Darby Bhd., the world’s biggest listed palm oil producer, will start focusing on its Malaysian plantations to improve yields, seeking to emulate successes achieved in neighboring Indonesia, Chairman Musa Hitam said.

09/04/2010 (Diet Blog) - If you ask someone where their food comes from, most people will say, "Uh, the supermarket?"

09/04/2010 (RTTNews) - Oil palm and rubber cultivator Anglo-Eastern Plantations PLC (AEP.L: News ) reported Friday, in its preliminary results, a decline in profit for the year ended December 31, 2009, hurt primarily by a decrease in revenues on significantly lower market average prices for crude palm oil and rubber.

09/04/2010 (Mongabay.com) - Sales of palm oil certified under the green criteria set by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) reached a record high in March, climbing nearly 8 percent over February 2010 to 136,000 metric tons, reports the RSPO in its monthly bulletin.

09/04/2010 (The Jakarta Post) - Three state plantation firms – PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN) III, IV and V — will begin the construction of three biodiesel plants in Dumai, Riau province, before the second half of the year starts.

09/04/2010 (Bloomberg) - A decision by China to allow its currency to appreciate may help to boost exports of palm oil from Indonesia to the world’s fastest-growing major economy by at least 21 percent, according to a producers’ association.

09/04/2010 (Commodity Online) - Sales of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil continue to grow significantly. In March 2010, a record 136,000 tonnes (or corresponding certificates) were purchased from palm oil producers, even more than the 126,000 tonnes that were produced that same month, Roundtable on Sustainale Palmoil (RSPO) said.

09/04/2010 (The Star Online), Puchong - IOI Corp Bhd executive chairman Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng projects the group’s palm oil output may drop 8% this year as unusual weather patterns and labour woes affect production at some estates.