Berita Arkib

12/4/07 (Mondaq) - Biofuels around the Globe. In Brazil, cars run on a 25 percent ethanol gasoline blend, taking advantage of being the world's largest producer of sugar-based ethanol of 16 billion litres (3.52 billion gallons) a year.

11/4/07 (WXYZ.com) - As the nation moves to significantly reduce trans fat consumption, the American Heart Association is launching "Face The Fats," an educational campaign to teach consumers how to minimize trans fat in their diet, while avoiding the unintended health consequence of defaulting to more saturated fat. The campaign features an "edutainment" Web site where the Bad Fats Brothers -- named Sat and Trans -- come to life, an interactive fat calculator and recipes developed by celebrity chef Alton Brown.

12/4/07 (Business Times) - PALM oil continues to trade higher as global supply of edible oils tightens against burgeoning demands to feed the food, oleochemicals and biodiesel industries.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 (Bernama) -- The Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) is looking into ways to advance the Malaysian palm oil industry, assisting scientists at the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) to prioritise their research and development programme.

6/4/07 (The Economic Times) - MUMBAI: India may consider cutting down its crude palm oil imports from Malaysia marginally and substituting it with soyabean oil if prevailing high prices continue.

12/4/07 (Economic Times) - MUMBAI: Oil and oilseed contracts were up on Wednesday at the NCDEX backed by firmness in the international markets.

13/4/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: PPB Group Bhd shareholders yesterday approved the merger between Singapore-based Wilmar International Ltd and PPB subsidiary PPB Oil Palms Bhd (PPBOP) as well as the group's edible oils, specialty fats, oleochemicals and trading businesses under PGEO Group Sdn Bhd and Kuok Oils & Grains Pte Ltd (KOG).

12/4/07 (theTrumpet.com) - There is no doubt: In some ways corn ethanol is cleaner than petroleum. Unfortunately, some unintended consequences of switching to bio-fuels are coming to light.

3/4/08 (Bloomberg) -- Palm oil futures rose to the highest in more than eight years on concern global supplies of cooking oil will lag behind demand led by China and India.

11/04/07 (Bloomberg) -- Palm oil futures rose to the highest in more than eight years after Malaysia, the largest grower last year, issued data showing its stockpiles plunged to a 19-month low in March.

10/4/07 (Bloomberg) -- Palm oil futures in Malaysia, the world's largest producer, rose for a third day after the release of figures showing that a bigger-than-expected gain in exports in March pushed stockpiles to their lowest level in 19 months.