Berita Arkib

21/04/2008 (Business Daily, Africa) - April 22, 2008: World prices for grain are threatening to go out of control. There is an outcry that diversion of resources from food crops to bio-fuel is partly to blame for the high grain commodity prices, especially in the US where government subsidies are provided for bio-fuel.

21/04/2008 (Reuters, UK), London - Environmental demonstrators targeted Unilever across Europe on Monday, entering plants and scaling walls, including those of its London headquarters.

21/04/2008 (AFP), Jakarta — Greenpeace called for a moratorium Monday on the expansion of palm oil plantations in Indonesia's rainforests and peat-lands, warning that soaring world demand is creating an environmental crisis.

21/04/2008 (Green Consumer Guide) - Unilever has been accused by Greenpeace today of playing a major role in the destruction of rainforests through its sourcing of palm oil for cosmetics. The environmental campaign group is demonstrating at the corporation’s London HQ, drawing attention to the orang-utan habitat destruction and climate change caused by palm oil plantations in Borneo.

21/04/2008 (The Star Online) - THERE was renewed interest in the timber sector last week following a recent timber conference organised by the CIMB group.

21/04/2008 (The Hindu), Kannur - Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram has said that an inflationary expectation is driving up the prices.

20/04/2008 (The News-International, Pakistan), Kota Kinabalu - The Malaysian government has started a programme to ensure sustainable development and production of palm oil as well as to further reduce environmental hazards and deforestation.

19/04/2008 (MENAFN, Jordan) - According to a report published by the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC), the Middle East has imported 1.4 million tons palm oil constituting 45 percent of its overall imports of oils and fats products last year, Khaleej Times reported.

18/04/2008 (Food Productiondaily.com) - Canada's Earthcycle, a producer of palm fibre-based packaging, has confirmed that its source material is made from sustainable sources that have not contributed to deforestation.

18/04/2008 (The Telegraph, UK) - Although the impact on deforestation and bio-diversity has been immense, the palm oil industries in Malaysia and Indonesia have become vital to their respective economies.

17/04/2008 (Biodiesel Magazine) - The Malaysian Minister of Plantation Commodities and Industries Yang Berhormat Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui announced the formation of a Malaysian Palm Oil Wildlife Conservation Fund at the opening ceremonies of the first International Palm Oil Sustainability Conference on Monday, April 14, in Sabah, Malaysia.

17/04/2008 (The Island Online) - The Minister of Coconut Development, Nation Building and Infrastructure said that the government should not have taken the decision to slash import taxes on palm oil.