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06/07/2010 (Agrimoney.com) - Palm oil groups may be set for a new wave of consolidation, as a squeeze on plantation land forces them to buy operators to maintain expansion, a sector boss and former Credit Suisse banker has said.

06/07/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil gained for the first time in four days after crude oil reversed losses, increasing the appeal of the tropical commodity for use in bio-diesel.

06/07/2010 (Greenpeace) - Even though we've had huge success in turning companies like Unilever, Nestlé and Kraft off palm oil produced by Sinar Mas, that only represents one part of the jigsaw and Sinar Mas is still chewing its way through Indonesia's rainforests.

06/07/2010 (Daily Express), Kota Kinabalu - Some 18 palm oil mills in Sabah have thus far complied with the Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) level of palm oil mill effluent discharge of 20milligramme per litre.

06/07/2010(AFP), Jakarta - Greenpeace on Tuesday accused foreign firms like Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco of contributing to forest destruction and species loss in Indonesia by buying from paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas.

06/07/2010 (The National Business Review) - Singapore’s large commodity trading company Wilmar International has trumped China’s Bright Food Group and bought CSR’s planned Sucrogen spin-off, which includes majority control of the Chelsea sugar refinery in Auckland.

06/07/2010 (The Sydney Morning Herald) - ANOTHER renowned Australian brand, the sugar business of CSR, was snapped up yesterday amid concerns its operations will now fund an offshore owner inextricably linked to an industry known for cutting down rainforests.

05/07/2010 (Bloomberg) - Palm oil dropped for a third day to the lowest in almost eight months as China's car sales growth slowed, adding to signs the economy of the biggest edible oil consumer is cooling.

30/06/2010 (Bloomberg) - Malaysia’s palm oil exports rose 1.5 percent in June, with China, the largest user of edible oils, accounting for the biggest share, independent cargo surveyor Intertek said.

29/06/2010 (Mongabay.com) - The first shipment of palm oil certified under sustainability criteria have arrived in the United States, according to the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

30/06/2010 (Bioenergy News) - A new roadmap has been released by the Department of Energy, plotting the way forward for the development of algal biofuels in the US.

30/06/2010 (Daily Express), Tawau - Oil palm ramets produced through the tissue culture process by TSH Biotech Sdn Bhd can double palm oil production from five metric tonnes per hectare currently to 10 metric tonnes as targeted by the government.