Berita Arkib

13/11/2007 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Crude palm oil (CPO) prices eased yesterday as the drop in export volume raised concerns that prices might have gone up too quickly to sustain demand.

13/11/2007 (New Consumer.com)Palm oil is one of the latest environmentally catastrophic ingredients that we’ve been waking up to lately - and quite literally, as from cereals to soaps it’s an often unspecified oil in many products.

13/11/2007 (The Economic Times), Gianyar - Indonesia plans to return to a 5 per cent biodiesel blend in diesel within the next three years on expectations of rising palm oil and jatropha production, Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Tuesday.

13/11/2007 (Poynter Online) - Marketplace radio has a story about the soaring price of palm oil, corn oil and other vegetable oils. The Marketplace story says about one third of the world's vegetable oil comes from palm trees. For the last decade, palm oil has traded for about $450 a ton. Now it sells for more than double. Palm oil is the cheapest vegetable oil. Prices rose by 40 percent in 2006.

13/11/2007 (Carbon Positive) - A number of multinational food and household product companies have been named in a report by Greenpeace as contributing to the rapid destruction of tropical rainforest and related greenhouse gas emissions.

11/12/2007 (Cosmetic Design.com)- Procter & Gamble and Unilever are among the personal care companies implicated in the environmental time bomb planted by the farming of the natural ingredient palm oil, according to a new report.

11/12/2007 (The Peninsula), Thiruvananthapuram - Kerala’s anti-imperialist slogans rent the air today, though in a corner of the northern Beypore port by a small band of activists, protesting against the import of palmolein.

11/11/2007(Reuters), London - Booming world demand for palm oil from Indonesia for food and biofuels is posing multiple threats to the environment as forests are being cleared, peat wetlands exposed and carbon released, a report said on Thursday.

10/11/2007 (The Star Online) - The oil palm fraternity will need to get used to a series of sharp spikes in crude palm oil (CPO) prices for at least another 12 months.

12/11/2007 (Couriermail.com.au) - COMPLACENT government attitudes toward biodiesel are costing Queensland jobs and denying the population one of the greenest energy forms.

11/09/2007 (Antara News), Jakarta - The crude palm oil (CPO) issue will be one of the topics of discussion in the International Trade Conference of Young Moslem Entrepreneurs to in Jakarta on August 9 to 18, 2008.

08/11/2007 (The Economic Times), Nusa Dua - India’s vegetable oil demand is expected to grow by 6-7% each year for the next five years as its economy expands and population grows, an industry body said on Thursday.