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9/7/706 (The Economic Times) - NEW DELHI: The India-ASEAN free trade agreement (FTA), the largest trade pact negotiated by India so far, has run into trouble. Both sides have dug in their heels over key issues, which need to be resolved to kick-start the accord from January 1, '07.

5/7/06 (Ther Edge News) - KNM Group Bhd is acquiring a 90% stake in Virgo Pulse Sdn Bhd group (VPSB), a maker of industrial boilers, for RM27.5 million cash in a strategic partnership deal that will allow it to expand into new industrial sectors such as power, palm oil and biomass.

6/7/06 SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell, the world's top marketer of biofuels, considers using food crops to make biofuels "morally inappropriate" as long as there are people in the world who are starving, an executive said on Thursday.

SINGAPORE, July 7 (Bernama) -- Southeast Asian countries are well-placed to tap into the biofuel potentials as they have rich biomass assets that can be turned into fuel, according to an expert on fuels technology.

30/6/06 (Bernama ) - THE Cabinet Committee on the Competitiveness of the Palm Oil Industry has decided for the Government to temporarily stop issuing new manufacturing licences for biodiesel production with immediate effect.

4/7/06 JAKARTA (Business Times) - Indonesia plans to boost output of palm oil, sugar cane and vegetable oils used in making biofuels that will help the nation reduce the use of petroleum products, Agriculture Minister Anton Apriyantono said in an interview.

6/7/06 (Reuters) - NEW DELHI: Edible oil imports by India, the world's leading buyer, is set to drop by about half a million tonnes in the year ending October thanks to higher domestic availability, trade officials said yesterday.

5/7/06 (Angolapress) YANGON - Myanmar has established its first modern palm oil refinery plant here to help meet local edible oil demand, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Wednesday.

5/7/05 (The Edge News) - Strong demand for crude palm oil (CPO) and surging crude oil prices saw the benchmark September delivery for CPO futures hitting the two-week high at RM1,487 per tonne and it is expected to cross the RM1,500 level.

05/07/2006 (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - Work on the nation's biggest renewable fuel plant in Darwin is almost complete.

4/7/06 (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta) - The government is targeting a 10 percent reduction in the country's consumption of oil-based fuels by 2010 from the current level of 41 million kiloliters (kl) by promoting the production and use of bio-diesel.

18/6/06 (The Jakarta Post) - The rapid increase in global oil prices, which reached over US$70 per barrel recently because of the uncertainty in the Middle East, has prompted the government to turn to an alternative energy -- biofuel.