Berita Arkib

26/12/2008 (My.Sinchew), Malaysia - Reduced demand coupled with depressed prices are expected to pressure Malaysia\'s major commodities such as crude palm oil (CPO), rubber and tin next year

26/12/2008 (The West Australian) - Indonesia, the world’s biggest palm oil producer, will raise the base price for palm oil exports in January to $418 a metric ton and keep the duty at 0 per cent.

25/12/2008(Lusaka Times) - An investor has expressed interest to venture into biodiesel production from palm oil in Luapula Province next year.

25/12/2008 (Business Standard) - Despite the weak global outlook, edible oilseeds and oils prices are likely to appreciate 20 per cent in 2009 on rising palm oil demand from the food sector constituting 15 per cent of global consumption.

24/12/2008 (Commodity Online), New Delhi - The Vanaspati Consultative Committee, an apex body of the Vanaspati industry has urged the Union Government not to increase customs duty on Crude Palm Oil as consumer prices of edible oils continue to be high with prices of major oilseeds ruling above Minimum Support Price (MSP).

24/12/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - The Government is considering a reduction in the Malaysian Palm Oil Board cess payment or even suspend it for a certain period to assist planters in dire straits.

24/12/2005 (The Star Online), Serdang - Plentiful Gold-Class Bhd, which manages Country Heights Growers Scheme (CHGS), a collective oil palm growing initiative, will deliver an 8% payout nett yield to its participating planters next month.

24/12/2008 (The Post), Islamabad - Despite 70 percent decline in edible oil prices in the international market, edible oil and ghee prices in Pakistan declined by 10 percent only.

23/12/2008 (Mongabay.com) - A new law seeks to double Malaysia's tiger population to 1,000 by 2020, reports BBC News.

23/12/2008 (Bernama), KUala Lumpur - Malaysia has strong fundamentals which makes the economy resilient enough to ride through next year when the fallout of the global economic slowdown begins to take effect.

23/12/2008 (Times Of India), Kolkata - The city is on the threshold of a bio-fuel revolution. Very soon, buses and diesel taxis may stop belching toxic smoke, and Kolkatans may again breathe fresh air. That is, if the government changes its policies to put this green fuel in top gear, as several countries have done.

22/12/2008 (My Iris) - The government will consider imposing import duty on crude palm oil in order to protect Indian oilseed industry amid a steep fall in international prices, commerce and industry minister Kamal Nath revealed after the meeting representatives of the edible oil industry.