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17/06/2008 (NST Online) - Export revenue from Malaysian palm oil products is projected to exceed RM50 billion this year compared to a record high of RM45.6 billion in 2007, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said today.

17/06/2008 (Biodiesel Magazine) - Malaysian oil palm growers try to turn the tide of public criticism with a conference devoted to discussing the tropical oil crop’s sustainability and carbon footprint.

17/06/2008 (Bernama), Bangi - The price of cooking oil will remain subsidised with the imposition of the windfall tax helping to stabilise prices, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said Tuesday.

17/06/2008 (Hindu Business Line), Chennai - Edible oil prices could tend to increase in the next couple of months as traders and refiners cut their inventories due to stock limit imposed by various State Governments. This is seen as the one that could affect the Centre’s plans to control soaring rate of inflation that is hovering nearly nine per cent.

16/06/2008 (Nine MSN) - Sime Darby, the world\'s largest listed oil palm landowner, is set to diversify \"in a big way\" into rice production, according to its chairman.

16/06/2008 (The Economic Times) - NEW DELHI: Indian edible oil manufacturers like Ruchi and Adani Wilmar who have set up vanaspati units in Sri Lanka are believed to have approached the government for bringing refined oils to India from their facilities as shipping vanaspati has become unviable.

16/06/2008 (Innovationa Report) - Typically, palm oil quality is determined in a destructive manner using wet chemical analysis, which can be costly, time consuming and error prone.

14/06/2008 (The Star Online) New Delhi - With crude palm oil (CPO) price hitting a record, leading Malaysian companies are stepping up overseas ventures.

16/06/2008 (The Economis Times), New Delhi - Subsidised palm oil will now be the new balm for the common man hit by escalating prices of goods. With an eye on the forthcoming general elections, the UPA government is planning to supply palm oil to states at a subsidy of 15% to be distributed through the public distribution system (PDS) starting next month.

13/06/2008 (Reuters, UK), Helsinki - Finland's Neste Oil Corp will build a biodiesel plant, its fourth such plant investment so far, in the Dutch city of Rotterdam to meet growing demand for biofuels, the company said on Friday.

15/06/2008 (Nation Media.com) - The Tanzania government stands to lose Tsh762 million ($635,000) in revenue as it moves to amend import duties to harmonise them with those of the East African Community Customs Union.

14/06/2008 (The News - International, Pakistan), Kuala Lumpur - Under Closer Economic Partnership Agreement (MPCEPA) signed between Pakistan and Malaysia in November 2007, Pakistan has reduced the tariff on seven palm products by 10 per cent Margin of Preference (MoP).