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15/10/2008 (The Star Online), Sibu - The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has been lambasted for not serving the palm oil sector effectively and failing to carry out its original role as the premier research and development (R&D) institution for the industry.

15/10/2008 (Daily Times), Karachi - Special Secretary Health Dr Abdul Majid has said that the test reports from three laboratories have shown that a consignment of imported palm oil stored at Port Qasim is unfit for human consumption. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, he said that samples of palm oil from the consignment were sent for testing to the laboratories of CDGK, PCSIR and HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry at Karachi University and their reports suggest that the palm oil is not fit for human consumption. He said that the case of the consignment is in court and its fate will be decided soon.

14/10/2008 (Bernama), Sibu - Seven major oil palm plantation companies in the state say they are burdened by taxes as high as up to 55 percent.

14/10/2008 (Bernama), Sibu - The Malaysian Oil Palm Board (MPOB) should do more to help plantation owners and smallholders like what the Rubber Research Institute Malaysia (RRIM) did for the rubber industry.

14/10/2008 (The Star Online), Sibu - Seven major Sarawak-based oil palm plantation companies are making a second appeal to the Federal Government to waive the windfall tax or revise the threshold price based on present cost increase and crude palm oil (CPO) price level.

14/10/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry will push for mandatory biodiesel use in the public transportation industry in its next meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Competitiveness of Palm Oil, following a similar implementation in Indonesia recently.

14/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - Sime Darby Bhd, the world’s largest listed planter, will be hurt by lower crude palm oil (CPO) prices but it plans to offset that by targeting a 5% improvement in its CPO production, increasing exports to China and cutting costs, said president and group chief executive officer Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid.

12/10/2008 (The Jakarta Post) - Thousands of farmers in Rokan Hulu regency, Riau province, in Sumatra are leaving their oil-palm fruit unharvested, letting it rot on the tree because of the sharp price decline for the export commodity, ^YAntara^Y news agency reported Sunday.

13/10/2008 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, the world's second-largest producer of palm oil, raised its annual export quota for crude palm oil by 50 percent as a surging inventory hurt prices, a government minister said on Monday.

13/10/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Sime Darby plans to send its first shipment of certified and traceble palm oil to its facility, Unimills B.V., in Holland by October 19, its President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid, said here today.

13/10/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures, which have fallen sharply recently to the RM1,800-level, are now very near the bottom, says OSK Investment Research.

12/10/2008 (ANTARA News), Pekanbaru, Riau - Thousands of farmers in Rokan Hulu (Rohul) district, Riau province in Sumatra, are now leaving their oil palm fruit unharvested, letting it rotten on the shaft as a result of sharp fall in the prices of the export commodity.