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16/04/2008 (Forbes), Jakarta - Indonesia\'s Trade Ministry on Wednesday said it has issued a regulation requiring the verification.

17/04/2008 (Mongabay) - Seeking to differentiate its palm oil from that produced less responsibly in other countries, the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) sponsored a three-day meeting this week in Kota Kinabalu, on the island of Borneo.

15/04/2008 (AFP), Kota Kinabalu — Indonesia likely overtook Malaysia as the world's top palm oil producer in 2007, due to dramatically increased planting there, Malaysia said Monday.

15/04/2008 (The Star Online), Kota Kinabalu - Malaysia’s palm oil industry is burnishing its green image with a RM20mil wildlife conservation fund.

16/04/2008 (Reuters), New Delhi - India, one of the world's leading buyers of edible oils, imported 421,686 tonnes of oils in March, almost a third more than a year earlier, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India said on Wednesday.

16/04/2008 (The Hindu Business Line), Chennai - Import of vegetable oils, for cooking and industrial use, continued to rise and increased by 28 per cent in March, while overall shipments into the country during the current oil year (November 2007-October 2008) was up at 38 per cent.

16/04/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - The country has imported 22.64 lakh tons of edible oils in the last five months, nearly 38 per cent more over the same period last year, the Solvent Extractors' Association of India said on Wednesday.

17/04/2008 (The Financial Express), New Delhi - Following the government decision to cut import duties on edible oil for controlling the rising prices, state owned PEC has floated two tenders to import more than 22,000 tonne of edible.

16/04/20089 (Reuters), Mumbai - The National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India Ltd (NAFED) has sought interest from edible oil refiners for processing and packing of imported edible oils, it said on its Web site on Wednesday.

16/04/2008 (Reuters), New Delhi (Reuters) - India left base import prices or tariff values unchanged for six palm group oils and crude soybean oil, the finance ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

15/04/2008 (The News International, Pakistan), Karachi - The country might face shortage of edible oil in a few days as private transporters of palm oil have resumed an indefinite strike over inclusion of state-owned National Logistics Cell (NLC) in their business, The News learnt on Monday.

14/04/2008 (Al Bawaba) - Global exports of Malaysian palm oil have reached 13.7 million tons, accounting for 26 per cent of the world’s oils and fats products consumption in 2007, which was recorded at 57.8 million tons, according to latest reports from the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC). As one of the product’s top destinations, the Middle East imported 1.4 million tons of Malaysian palm oil, which constituted 45 per cent of its overall imports of oils and fats products in the same year. With aims of further enhancing business opportunities in the Gulf, MPOC and the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) have announced the first ‘Malaysia-UAE Palm Oil Trade Fair & Seminar’ (POTS) 2008, which will be held at the Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel from May 26 - 27, 2008.