Berita Arkib

26/06/2008 (AFP), Jakarta — High global prices for palm oil mean good times ahead for Asian producers over the next 12 to 18 months but little growth in much-touted biofuels, credit rating agency Moody's said on Thursday.

25/06/2008 (Guardia.co.uk), Beijing - Chinese authorities have impounded palm oil stocks in a northern city after a major trading company's boss vanished, leaving a question mark over at least a hundred million yuan in prepayments from clients, traders said on Wednesday.

25/06/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the government was focusing on two possibilities in expanding Felda's commercial activities as a major producer of palm oil.

25/06/2008 (NST Online), Kuala Lumpur - The government will not allow the clearing of forest areas for any new oil palm plantations, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday.

25/06/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Terengganu - TDM Bhd is planning to increase its investments in the oil palm plantation sector in West Kalimantan this year with the acquisition of another 30,000 hectares of plantation land.

24/06/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Wholesale prices of select edible oils fell for the second straight day today in the national capital due to slow down in demand from vanaspati and retail units, even as palm oil prices rose in the global market.

24/06/2008 (International Herald Tribune), Brussels - Anti-poverty group Oxfam International on Tuesday urged the world's poorest nations to think twice before jumping on a biofuel boom that could drive farmers off their land and hit food supplies.

25/06/2008 (NST Online), Kuala Lumpur - The government will not allow the clearing of forest areas for any new oil palm plantations, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday.

24/06/2008 (Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)), Islamabad - Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Tuesday called for early signing of the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Indonesia as it would encourage and enhance the volume of trade between the two countries. He was talking to a delegation of Indonesian investors headed by Derom Bangun who alongwith a delegation of Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturers Association led by Sh. Amjad Rashid, called on him here at the Prime Minister House this afternoon.

23/06/2008 (The Star Online) - Despite a disappointing 2007, Standard & Poor's (S&P) is optimistic that Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd's oil palm plantation divisions will prosper this year.

21/06/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Edible oil prices led by sesame and soyabean oils maintained an upward march for the third consecutive week, in the national capital on heavy buying by stockists sparked by firming global trend.

21/06/2008 (The Financial Express) - New Delhi, Jun 20 The government on Friday announced that edible oils would be sold at subsidised rates through ration shops across 15 states from the next month.