Berita Arkib

06/04/2009 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - Ukraine's palm oil imports will fall 10 percent this year to 440,000 tonnes because of increasingly cheaper and plentiful domestic supplies of sunflower oil, Malaysian and Indonesian traders said on Friday.

03/04/2009 (YLE.fi) - Greenpeace activists staged a demonstration in front of Helsinki's Fair Centre where the annual general of Neste Oil was being held on Friday. Greenpeace is demanding that the company stop using palm oil in the production of diesel fuel.

03/04/2009 (CNN Money) - Neste Oil is fully committed to using only palm oil that has been produced responsibly, and has a set of tough sustainability principles in place covering its procurement of bio-based raw materials. Thanks to the development of a system that enables it to trace the origin of all the palm oil that it uses, it knows exactly where and how its palm oil has been produced. Neste Oil has also committed itself to only using palm oil certified by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) as it becomes available in sufficient volumes.

03/04/2009 (Bernama), Bangi - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) and South Korea's Dongwha GH International Sdn Bhd will jointly conduct research and development (R&D) specifically for medium density fibreboard production for commercialisation purpose.

03/04/2009 (The Publican) - Oils specialist promoting sustainable production in Malaysia.

02/04/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - The Sabah Government is to spend RM2.37 billion in two years for infrastructure development and oil palm cultivation in the Sabah Development Corridor, a senior state government official said Thursday.

02/04/2009 (Green Planet) - The various ongoing and newly-proposed Oil Palm projects in Indonesia to convert forests into plantations have caused the concern of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (UNCERD).

02/04/2009 (Pak Watan), Islamabad - The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has decided to conduct income tax audit of ghee and cooking oil manufacturers for one year period to verify payments of income tax and withholding tax under Income Tax Ordinance 2001. The FBR has recently issued instructions to the Directorate Generals of Large Taxpayer Units (LTUs) and Regional Tax Offices (RTOs) for audit purposes.

01/04/2009 (Daily Monitor) - In 2003 the Uganda government, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bidco, and individual farmers in Kalangala District under Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) combined efforts and established an oil palm project, Oil Palm of Uganda Ltd (Opul) with technical assistance from Malaysia.

31/03/2009 (Carbon Positive) - Financial markets to preserve rainforests must be incorporated into mandatory emissions trading schemes if they are to offer a viable economic alternative to palm oil in tropical agriculture, a study finds.

31/03/2009 (Business Times, Malaysia) - Malaysian palm oil exporters are benefiting from the US recession, as cost-conscious Americans buy more ready-to-eat meals that are mainly cooked in palm oil and margarine.

30/03/2009 (Flex News) - March 30 - Biofuel consumption increased significantly in 2008 as petroleum prices reached a record high. The run-up in crude oil prices left gasohol and biodiesel as cheaper options for Thai consumers.