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22/04/2008 (IcWales, UK) - TESCO service station green fuel could make climate change worse rather than better, according to an investigation by Greenpeace.

22/04/2008 (The Star Online) - WHAT became of EnvoDiesel, the made-in-Malaysia biofuel launched on a high note by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi two years ago?

22/04/2008 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - The state government’s raid spree on shopkeepers to arrest soaring prices of essential commodities will not yield desired results, say traders. According to official data, so far 3,628 shopkeepers all over Maharashtra have been raided and over-stocked goods worth Rs 53.83 crore have been seized in the last ten days.

21/04/2008 (AllAfrican.com) - 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 (National Geographic) - The biofuels boom is causing a spike in food prices worldwide, hitting developing countries particularly hard, experts say.

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.