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01/05/2008 (Forbes) - Unilever NV said it will aim to ensure the palm oil it uses comes from certified sustainable sources by 2015.

04/05/2008 (AFP), Malaysia — Malaysia is promoting its controversial palm oil industry as a model of eco-friendliness, but activists warn forests are still being destroyed to make way for vast plantations.

04/05/2008 (Radio Australia) - India says it is close to clinching a free trade deal with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations .

03/05/2008 (Bernama), Miri - A dialogue with European Union (EU) members of parliament and the World Sustainability Conference in London both slated for September this year will be the earliest grounds to test the collaboration between Malaysia and Indonesia to counter anti-palm oil propaganda in Europe.

03/05/2008 (The Star Online) - OIL palm plantation giant IOI group has diligently undertaken corporate responsibility (CR) activities in an admirable manner for over a decade.

03/05/2008 (The Daily Star) - Retailers across the country continue to sell palm oil at Tk 103 to Tk 104 a litre even though the government fixed its retail price at Tk 96 three days ago.

02/05/2008 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian power-to-telecoms conglomerate YTL Corp (YTLS.KL: Quote, Profile, Research) took a majority stake in what it said was the country\'s largest carbon credit consultancy on Friday, looking to capitalise on growing opportunities in the palm oil sector.

02/05/2008 (Economist) - LAST month, your columnist raved about the new generation of lean, clean diesel cars arriving belatedly in America (“Diesel’s second coming”, April 4th 2008), but wondered where they might find their fuel. With oil pushing $120 a barrel, the diesel’s fuel-sipping charms—it delivers about 30% more miles per gallon (MPG) than regular petrol—have created a shortage of diesel fuel around the world.

02/05/2008 (Food Navigator) - Unilever has pledged to use only palm oil certified as sustainable by 2015, while also supporting calls for a moratorium on further deforestation for palm oil in Indonesia.

02/05/2008 (Malaysia Sun) - Unilever says that by 2015 it will only use palm oil made from sustainable sources and not from deforested ground.

02/05/2008 (The Daily Times, Pakistan), Islamabad - Import of five commodities POL products, wheat, palm oil, raw cotton and fertilizer at higher value added $3.074 billion in trade deficit of the country during July-March period of this fiscal year, stats a finance ministry report submitted to the parliament.

02/05/2008 (Herald Sun) - ANGLO-DUTCH food and consumer goods giant Unilever says it will back a moratorium on further palm oil deforestation in Indonesia and intends to use only fully traceable palm oil by 2015.