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12/07/2010 (Jakarta Post) - Writing in the International Herald Tribune late last year, Tun Dr. Lim Yeng Kaik, a former senior Malaysian Cabinet minister, characterized the campaign of Western environmental activists to restrict the palm oil industry as the environmental version of the “White Man’s Burden”. The aim was to impose western values on colonial peoples. He coined the term the Green Man’s burden.

12/07/2010 (Business Mirror) - LOCAL coconut-oil producers are pushing for a review of the computation used by transmission companies for their transmission demand charge after some mills in Mindanao registered up to a 79-percent hike in their per-kilowatt-hour (kWh) rate from January to May.

12/07/2010 (Commodity Online) - Palm oil stocks in Malaysia tumbled to 10 month lows in June as exports surprisingly outpaced a weaker-than-expected recovery in production.

12/07/2010 (International Business Times) - India's vegetable oil imports in June probably fell 18 percent from a year ago, as farmers and traders sold oilseed reserves ahead of the summer planting season, pushing down domestic prices.

12/07/2010 (Business Standard) - Crude palm oil price rose by Rs four to Rs 368 in futures trade today, as speculators indulged in creating fresh positions on expectations of a rise in demand in the spot market.

12/07/2010 (Australian Network News) - The World Wildlife Fund has welcomed news that Australia's peak grocery industry body has signed up to a roundtable conference on sustainable palm oil.

12/07/2010 (The Wall Street Journal), Indonesia - A widely hailed new project to restrict forest-clearing in Indonesia over the next two years is turning out to be more complicated than expected and could leave large areas of the country unprotected, as environmentalists and industry groups fight over terms of the deal before it takes effect in January.

11/07/2010, (GNA), Takoradi - Ghana's oil palm sub-sector can generate substantial foreign exchange earnings if greater attention just like cocoa, was accorded to the sector, Mr Samuel Avaala, Estate Manager, Benso Oil Palm Plantation (BOPP) has said.

11/07/2010 (Business Line), Chennai - Last week, crude palm oil futures (July contracts) fell below the crucial support of 2,330 Malaysian ringgits (MYR) or $730 a tonne on Bursa Malaysia or the Malaysian Derivatives Exchange.

11/07/2010 (The Star Online) - WHO would have thought that such disparate items as organic toothpaste, environmentally-friendly tissue paper, fish food and a heavy metal filtering system could come out of palm oil waste products?

10/07/2010 (IIFL) - The upward bias in the Malaysian Palm oil exports extended in the current month with the country's palm shipments during the July 1-10 period estimated up 9% on month at 474,928 metric tons, according to the independent cargo surveyor Intertek Agri Services.

10/07/2010 (PTI) - Prices of select edible oils continued to rise for the second straight week at the wholesale oils and oilseeds market on increased buying by vanaspati millers and retailers amid firming global trend.