Berita Arkib

12/11/2008 (Sustainable Business.com) - Palm oil is ubiquitous on supermarket shelves in products ranging from margerine to crackers, from cosmetics to detergents. In fact, about half the products people commonly purchase contain it.

12/11/2008 (WWF News Centre), Rotterdam, NL: The arrival of the first certified sustainable palm oil shipment in Europe opens up possibilities for palm oil users to move away from subsidising forest destruction and social disruption from expanding palm oil plantations.

12/11/2008 (Daily Express News), Bangi - The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has target 200,000 hectares of oil palm for the replanting scheme, which will involve trees of more than 25 years old.

11/11/2008 (Taiwan News) - Environmental group Greenpeace said Monday it had stopped several palm oil shipments from leaving Indonesia and called for an end to forests and peatlands being destroyed to make way for plantations.

11/11/2008 (Bernama), Bangi -- The Ministry of Plantation Industries and Commodities has target 200,000 hectares of oil palm for the replanting scheme, which will involve trees of more than 25 years old.

11/11/2008 (The Star Online), Kuala Lumpur - HwangDBS Vickers Research is maintaining a cautious stance on the palm oil sector and believes the recent recovery in the crude palm oil (CPO) price might not last.

10/11/2008 (Greenpeace), Indonesia - Greenpeace activists today prevented a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe from Dumai, Indonesia's main palm oil export port, to protest against the ongoing destruction of Indonesia's forests.

11/11/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - CB Industrial Product Holding Bhd (CBIP) expects its business of designing and building palm oil mills to grow by 50% next year.

10/11/2008 (Money Control), Hyderabad - The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to reduce the palm oil price being distributed to White Card holders through fair price shops to Rs 35 a litre from the present Rs 45 immediately. The decision was taken by Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, after a meeting with officials of the Civil Supplies, Marketing and Horticulture here on Monday.

10/11/2008 (AFP), Jakarta — Environmental group Greenpeace said Monday it had stopped several palm oil shipments from leaving Indonesia and called for an end to forests and peatlands being destroyed to make way for plantations.

10/11/2008 (Xinhua), Kuala Lumpur - Vegetable oils forecast expert Thomas Mielke believes palm oil prices have bottomed out and expects sharp increases ahead, Malaysian media reported on Monday.

10/11/2008 (Business Standard) - IOI Corp (1961), the world’s second- biggest palm-oil producer, gained for the first time in three days in Kuala Lumpur trading after profit beat some estimates and analysts said the stock is undervalued.