Berita Arkib

14/10/2009 (Daily Monitor (Uganda)) - Ms Stella Ddambya, a teacher at Bishop Dan Stan Secondary School in Kalangala District seemed weary of the debate on the economic and environmental merits and demerits of Kalangala Oil Palm Project.

12/10/2009 (Biodiesel Magazine) - New York City’s feedstock procurement firm, Tri-State Biodiesel LLC, which provides recycled restaurant greases to biodiesel producers, has received the 2009 Innovation Award from the Social Venture Network. Brent Baker, CEO of Tri-State, has been a member of SVN for several years and will be accepting the award at the organization’s fall conference, which starts Oct. 22 in La Jolla, Calif. “These are business leaders who are dedicated to making the world a better a place, and support a mission to work with other members,” Baker told Biodiesel Magazine.

12/10/2009 (The Times Of India), Ludhiana - Avoiding adulterated food in the city is becoming difficult as all five samples of cooking oil that health department took during raids conducted on September 26 have failed the purity tests.

12/10/2009 (Bernama), Kota Kinabalu - The Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu is expected to be fully operational in two years time, said the Managing Director of Kumpulan Sawit Kinabalu Sdn Bhd, Othman Walat.

12/10/2009 (Business Times, Malaysia) - MOODY's Investors Service has affirmed the 'BAA1' issuer rating of IOI Corp Bhd as well as the senior unsecured bonds and loans issued by IOI Ventures (L) Bhd which are guaranteed by IOI.

12/10/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia's palm oil stock in September rose by 11.47 per cent to 1.578 million tonnes from the 1.415 million tonnes in August, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) said in its monthly report Monday.

13/10/2009 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices posted gains yesterday mainly on bullish export data for the first 10 days of October.

13/10/2009 (ABC Rural) - A Queenslander is about to move to Papua New Guinea to lead a world-first irrigation project for the palm oil industry.

13/10/2009 (Business Times, Malaysia) - MALAYSIA'S palm oil exports are expected to fetch about RM50 billion this year, its first annual drop in four years, as current prices at RM2,200 per tonne is only half of last year's record high.

11/10/2009(Jakarta Globe) - The Business Competition Supervisory Commission said it has found evidence indicating that the nation’s major producers of cooking oil have been acting as a cartel to control prices.

09/10/2009 (Food Business Review) - Sime Darby is looking to expand its palm oil processing operations in China to meet rising demand for cookies, ice cream and instant noodles from the country's growing middle class, the chairman of the company said, reported FLEXNEWS, quoting Reuters as its source.

09/10/2009 (Jakarta Globe), Kuala Nerang, Malaysia - Malaysia, once the world’s largest rubber producer, risks becoming a net importer within a few years as trees age and farmers shift to more profitable palm oil.