Berita Arkib

17/01/2008 (AllAfrican.com) - The General Manager of the Cameroon Development Corporation, CDC, on Friday, January 11, launched a giant five-year development project, the Boa Plain Oil Palm Development Project, BPOPDP.

17/01/2008 (The Register, Australia) - Australia should act to introduce strict guidelines to ensure that biofuels sold or manufactured here, are not causing environmental problems elsewhere, a spokesperson for the Palm Oil Action Group said today.

16/01/2008 (Forbes), Bangkok - Thailand will import 30,000 metric tons of palm oil over the next month to ease fears of a shortage due to its growing use in biofuels, commerce minister Krirk-Krai Jirapaet said Wednesday.

15/01/2008 (The Bangkok Post) - Palm oil prices have jumped sharply in recent months, leading authorities to consider a ban on exports. Palm oil is a raw material for cooking oil, the food industry and as an alternative fuel.

16/01/2008 (The Daily Times, Pakistan) - KARACHI: The local edible oil prices surged on higher import cost of crude palm oil which stood around $1,042 per tonne in the international market, after a new all time high world record prices a day earlier, the importers and millers said here on Tuesday.

15/01/2008 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - India’s vegetable oil imports dipped by 25% during December 2007, on better crushing and domestic availability of the commodity, the Solvent Extractors’ Association of India (SEA) said on Tuesday.

15/01/2008 (The Star Online), Petaling Jaya - Crude palm oil (CPO) futures on Malaysia Derivatives Exchange hit a new record of above RM3,400 per tonne yesterday on supply concern amid surging world demand for food and biodiesel consumption.

15/01/2008(ANTARA News), Jakarta - Indonesia plans to substitute around 10 percent of its fossil fuel transport consumption with biofuel products by 2010, a senior government official said on Monday.

15/01/2008 (The Bangkok Post) - The Commerce Ministry yesterday threatened to set a ceiling for retail prices of cooking palm oil if it found traders were hoarding the product.

12/01/2008 (The Bangkok Post) - The government plans to import 60,000 tonnes of crude palm oil to solve a supply shortage and hopes the measure will have a positive psychological effect on the industry.

14/01/2008 (My Iris) - Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) is likely to launch palm oil-blended diesel in the local market this year to save the domestic bio fuel industry.

14/01/2008 (Reuters), Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia is likely to introduce palm oil-blended diesel in the local market this year to save the domestic biofuel industry, which has been hit by soaring feedstock prices, a top industry official said on Monday.