Berita Arkib

01/11/2007 (AllAfrican.com) - Tanzania is paying dearly for heavily relying on imports."We really import all the fuel used in the country," Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) policy and research director Hussein Kamote told The Citizen by phone yesterday.

31/10/2007 (Mongabay.com) - The Dutch government will exclude palm oil from "green energy" subsidies as growing evidence suggests that palm oil is often less sustainable than advertised.

31/10/2007 (Reuters), New Delhi - The government’s decision to stop the import of palmoil at a southern port following lobbying by the rival coconut trade has helped stabilise coconut prices and bring the two oils to price parity.

01/11/2007 (Biofuels Review) - EU plans to increase the use of biofuels could spell disaster for some of the world's poorest people warns international agency, Oxfam in a briefing published today (1st November).

01/11/2007 (The Register) - European targets for use of biofuels will make life worse for some of the poorest people on the planet, according to a report from charity Oxfam.

01/11/2007 (Tehran Times) - Indonesia is seeking a return to its exports heyday of the early 1990s, spearheaded by a glittering trade fair in Jakarta recently, but analysts warn that growth so far is bypassing its workers.

31/10/2007 (The Star Online), Shah Alam - Southern Acids (M) Bhd registered better earnings in its core operating divisions for the financial year ended Apr 30, group managing director Datuk Low Mong Hua said.

30/10/2007 (Business Times, Malaysia) - Malaysian palm oil stocks are expected to fall 2.4 per cent in October from a month earlier due to declining production, a Reuters poll showed today.

30/10/2007 (Daily Express News), Kuala Lumpur - Crude palm oil physical prices reached a record high of RM3,000 per tonne for November Monday, buoyed by skyrocketing oil prices of US$93 per barrel.

31/10/2007 (NST Online), Kuantan - Investors from the Middle East are expected to be among the first foreigners to take part in large-scale projects in the East Coast Economic Region (ECER).

30/10/2007 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur - A total of 91 biodiesel projects with production capacity of 10.193 million tonnes per year were approved by end-September this year, Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry's Parliamentary Secretary Senator Datuk Dr S. Vijayaratnam said Tuesday.

30/10/2007 (Forbes), Kuala Lumpur - The mass production of palm oil-based biodiesel in Malaysia has been slow in taking off as the current high price of crude palm oil has made the use of the alternative energy source uncompetitive, a local daily reported Wednesday.