Berita Arkib

28/11/2007 (My Iris) - Palm oil imports increased by 13% to 2.766 million tons in 2006-07 from 2.449 million tons during previous year, in the wake of rising demand.

27/11/2007 (Morden Ghana) - The price of palm oil hit a record high of 70,000 cedis per a gallon at the Apasare Palm Oil Cottage factory, near Adawso in the Akuapem North District at the weekend.

27/11/2007 (The Hindu), Kochi - Thirtyfive rail wagons carrying 1,820 tonnes of palm oil from Chennai were seized here on suspicions that the edible oil was of inferior quality and brought in wagons used to transport petroleum products.

27/11/2007 (IPS), Bangkok - European Union (EU) demand for supposedly green-friendly fuels, such as palm oil, is coming at a high social and environmental cost in Asia, warns a new report released Tuesday by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

27/11/2007 (Independent Online), Helsinki - Thirty-three members of the environmental group Greenpeace were arrested before being released in Finland after trying to block the unloading of a palm oil shipment, the group said on Monday.

21/11/2007 (Reuters), New Delhi - Indian edible oil refiner Jhunjhunwala Vanaspati Ltd said on Wednesday that it will spend up to 1.5 billion rupees ($38 million) to buy 20,000 hectares of oil palm plantations in Indonesia.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - An environmental group has threatened to withdraw its support for a plan to certify "eco-friendly" palm oil, accusing the world's two biggest producers of cynically exploiting the initiative.

20/11/2007 (International Herald Tribune), Guangzhou - China, the biggest vegetable oil consumer in the world, will import more soybeans and palm oil to meet growing demand after local farmers reduced oilseed plantings, bolstering prices that have risen by half this year.

22/11/2007 (The Economic Times), Singapore - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has pushed hard for an early resolution of some of the key problems which are holding up the India-ASEAN free trade agreement. Commerce minister Kamal Nath met the ASEAN trade ministers and, after prolonged negotiations, it was decided that the FTA could be finalised by May 2008. The original deadline for finalising the agreement was July 2007.

22/11/2007 (Business Standard) - Even as negotiations on the ambitious Indo-Asean foreign trade agreement (FTA) remain deadlocked, experts suggest the way forward will be to leave the sticky points aside for the time being and proceed ahead with concluding the treaty

21/11/2007 (Talking Retail) - Sainsbury's has banned the use of non-sustainable palm oil from its own-brand foods.The supermarket group announced today that all palm oil used in its own-brand food would now come from certified sustainable sources.

21/11/2007 (Guardian Unlimited) - Sainsbury's has announced a ban on an ingredient used in tens of thousands of its products that is blamed for the destruction of tropical rainforests.