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24/02/2010 (The Malaysian Insider), Jakarta – Malaysia’s palm oil futures edged down by Wednesday midday, easing further from a 6-½ week peak hit a day before as investors do not want to take positions ahead of Thursday’s release of Feb.1-25 palm oil exports, traders said.

24/02/2010 (Reuters) - Consumer goods giant Unilever has told dealers not to source palm oil from Indonesian planter Duta Palma on concerns over rainforest destruction, an Indonesian industry official said on Wednesday.

23/02/2010 (Mongabay.com) - Indonesia will not allow the conversion of natural forest for oil palm plantations, claimed the country's Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan in comments reported by the Jakarta Post.

23/02/2010 (Bloomberg) - Bidco Uganda Ltd., owners of the country’s largest edible-oil refinery, may produce as much as 20,000 metric tons of the product in its first year of operation, Kodey Rao, the managing director said.

23/02/2010 (The Copenhagen Post Online) - Japanese company invests in Danish straw-based biofuel technology for an undisclosed sum.

23/02/2010 (Jakarta Globe) - A leading non-governmental organization has urged Indonesia not to take pride in being the world’s biggest producer of crude palm oil because the production process has yet to meet standards for environmental sustainability.

23/02/2010 (VOA News) - Like many developing countries, Thailand is looking for ways to ease its reliance on costly imported oil and gas. A new government plan includes nuclear power, bio-fuels and solar energy among potential energy sources for the country.

23/02/2010 (Mongabay.com) - Indonesia will not allow the conversion of natural forest for oil palm plantations, claimed the country's Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan in comments reported by the Jakarta Post.

22/02/2010 (The Independent) - The household goods giant Unilever has distanced itself from a major palm-oil producer after a BBC documentary filmed its staff clearing protected rainforest to make way for plantations producing the widely-used ingredient. In its second blacklisting of a palm-oil producer in three months, Unilever said it would avoid buying supplies originating from the Indonesian company Duta Palma, ensuring they did not end up in best-selling brands such as Dove soap and Flora margarine.

22/02/2010 (The Star Online), Trolak - Plantation conglomerate Felda Holdings Bhd is putting in place strategic Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects encompassing 56 biogas plants, six compost plants, one pellet plant and two independent power producer (IPP) plants nationwide.

21/02/2010 (Financial Chronicle) - The Rs 2,500-crore diversified Emami Group, which is foraying into the edible oil space, will invest around Rs 500 crore in setting up two edible oil refineries in Kris­hnapatnam (Andhra Prade­sh) and Pipavav (Gujarat) as it expects the units to go on stream by 2010-2011, a top official said on Saturday.

21/02/2010 (AFP), Jakarta - Following Brazil's trail, Indonesia is encouraging foreign and local investors to lease huge swathes of fertile countryside and help make the country a major food producer.