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14/07/2008 (The Star Online) - UNITED Plantations Bhd is undergoing a major expansion into oil palm plantations in Indonesia after 100 years of solid presence in Malaysia.

14/07/2008 (Morden Ghana) - Mr Akenten Appiah-Menkah, Managing Director of Appiah-Menkah Apino Soap in Kumasi, has called for the establishment of a Palm Oil Development Board to handle issues on the industry.

12/07/2008 (The Daily Star) - Prices of spices increased throughout the week in the capital after the government had raised fuel prices while various edible oils were still selling at higher prices despite a lower rate fixed by the government three days earlier.

12/07/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Edible oil prices fell across the board during the week ending Saturday, registering a decline of up to Rs 450 per quintal in the national capital on stockists selling, sparked by weakening global oil markets.

12/07/2008 (The Star Online) - ACCORDING to a recent Reuters report, some refineries are overflowing and need to stop operations as there is no real additional demand to take away this surplus.

12/07/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Analysts remain optimistic on the outlook for crude palm oil (CPO) despite the rising palm oil inventory and lagging exports vis-à-vis production during the first half of the year.

11/07/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Oil palm smallholders having plantations 40 hectares and below are exempted from paying windfall profit levy from July 15, Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop said Friday.

12 Jul, 2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - Crude palm oil prices gained Rs 20 a quintal in the national capital on fresh buying by stockists influenced by firm global trend.

08/07/2008 (Science News) - Rising demand for palm oil will decimate biodiversity unless producers and politicians can work together to preserve as much remaining natural forest as possible, ecologists have warned. A new study of the potential ecological impact of various management strategies found that very little can be done to make palm oil plantations more hospitable for local birds and butterflies. The findings have major implications for the booming market in biofuels and its impact on biodiversity.

09/07/2008 (The Daily Times, Pakistan), Karachi - Due to higher import cost, the manufacturers of vegetable ghee and cooking oil are unable to control the prices and there is no option to control the prices other than reduction in taxes, Pakistan Vanaspati Manufacturer’s Association (PVMA) said Tuesday.

08/07/2008 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia, the world's largest palm oil producer, will neither stop nor increase its palm oil production but rather raise yields of the vegetable oil through research and development, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said here Tuesday.

07/07/2008 (Sindh Today.net), Karachi - Pakistani traders have started closing deals for importing 200,000 tonnes palm oil which will be used in meeting demand of ghee and oil in the holy month of Ramazan.