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14/08/2008 (Commodity Online) - India and Pakistan is set to help Malaysia increase its palm oil exports with the festival season beginning in both the countries in September. To add to that, Malaysia is all set to have a bumper palm oil production.

14/08/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - The palm oil industry will be able to reduce the cost of importing chemical and mineral fertilizers if it can produce and apply biofertilizers from the biomass and waste of oil palm, says Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui.

14/08/2008 (The Edge Daily), Kuala Lumpur - Asiatic Development Bhd’s indirect wholly owned unit Ketapang Agri Holdings Pte Ltd (KAH) has teamed up with Singapore-based Palma Citra Investama Pte Ltd and Indonesia-based PT Sawit Mandira to cultivate oil palm on 15,800 hectares of land in Kabupaten Ketapang, Kalimantan, Indonesia.

13/08/2008 (Bloomberg) - India, the world's biggest buyer of vegetable oils after China, may boost purchases to a record 6 million metric tons this year as domestic supplies lag demand.

14/08/2008 (Solomon Times Online) - Tribal leaders of Auluta Basin in East Malaita have re-echoed their call on the National Government to step up the implementation of the Auluta Basin Palm Oil Project.

13/08/2008 (The News International), Kuala Lumpur - Pakistan has delayed some palm oil purchases for the Muslim holy month of Ramazan, after covering 75 per cent of its needs, as traders pause to see where plunging prices will stabilise, a trade official said on Tuesday.

12/08/2008 (Reuters, India), Dhaka - Bangladesh has imported about 17 percent more edible oil during January to July 2008 despite soaring prices, a senior official of the sector said.

12/08/2008 (The Hindu), Jakarta - Indonesia's crude palm oil (CPO) products has not been affected so much by the policy of environmental sustainability issued by the European Union (EU), Trade Minister Mari Elka Pangestu said Tuesday.

12/08/2008 (Gambia New Community) - Aja Ara Jatta, the president of the Serrekunda Market Committee, has vowed to clear the Serrekunda Market of vendors who trade in palm oil that are mixed with coloured powder and other unhealthy substances.

12/08/2008 (LBO) - High prices of palm oil helped Sri Lanka's Namunukula Plantations increase June quarter net profit by almost half to 71 million rupees from a year ago as profits from tea and rubber fell.

12/08/2008 (NST Online) - ARNOLD Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, has just announced that come Jan 1, 2010, all 88,000 restaurants in the state will be prohibited from using oil, margarine and shortening containing trans fats. Retail baked goods will have an extra year's grace period until Jan 1, 2011. Packaged food, though exempted, will have to show distinct trans fat labelling on their packaging.

12/08/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - In view of falling crude palm oil (CPO) prices, planters are asking for a higher threshold price that is used to calculate windfall tax on oil palm companies.