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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 (Bernama) -- 'Halal' ready-made food emerged as a newtrend at the just-ended International Food Products Exhibition in Paris,one of the world's biggest gatherings of food industry professionals.

Oct 25, 2004 DEBAK -The Deputy Minister of Transport, Datuk Douglas UggahEmbas yesterday reassured the people, particularly those in rural areas,that the government would continue to draw up and implemented developmentprogrammes to uplift their standard of living.The development of oil palmand rubber plantations in various parts of the State were testimonies ofthe government’s commitment to upgrade the socio-economic status of ruralfolks, he said during a joint ceremony for the closing of an in-sitetraining on rubber tapping and handing over of a mini rubber estate tofive longhouses in the Ulu Rimbas near here, yesterday.

MUMBAI, Oct 22 (Bernama) -- The Export and Import Bank of India (EXIMBank) is currently in talks with one of Malaysia's commercial bank toexpand its second credit line worth US$10 million (RM38 million), itschairman and managing director, T.C Venkat Subramaniam said.

Friday October 22, 2004 - IOI Corp Bhd is looking to turn in anotherrecord performance for its current financial year ending June 30, 2005,spurred by a projected 15% increase in crude palm oil (CPO) production byits plantation division.

21/10/04 (The Edge Daily) - PPB Oil Palms Bhd’s subsidiary Kalimantan PalmIndustries Sdn Bhd (KPI) has entered into a joint venture (JV) with PTRimba Harapan Sakti and PT Salawati Makmur to develop about 32,200ha inCentral Kalimantan, Indonesia.

21/10/2004 - A popular food oil used extensively in food formulations isthe latest product-type to be pulled from the UK supermarket shelves asthe country’s food watchdog identifies the illegal carcinogen Sudan IV ina batch of palm oil brands.

Friday October 22, 05:24 AM - Humanity's reliance on fossil fuels, thespread of cities, the destruction of natural habitats for farmland and theexploitation of the oceans are outstripping the planet's capacity to cope,the conservation group WWF said.

19/10/04 BUSINESS TIMES (MALAYSIA) - PORT Klang Authority (PKA) said itssister port relationships with several ports around the world have workedto increase trade and promote shipping and logistic services betweenMalaysia and the countries concerned.

10/21/2004 ALAMOSA, Colo. USA -- Blue Sun Biodiesel(R) announces thenation's first high-volume commercial biodiesel blending terminal andintegrated biodiesel processing plant. High-performance biodiesel blendswill be available from the terminal beginning this November.

16/10/04- China and Indonesia have reached an agreement to lower some palmoil tariff. The 24 degree Malaysian palm oil FOB quotes for Novembershipment are at $415-418 per ton this week, so the duty-paid cost will be4,630-4,670 Yuan per ton, greatly lower than that in September.

16/10/04 CHINA - The 24 degree palm oil quotes have been at 5,500-5,550Yuan per ton in Tianjin early this week, with port stocks owned by severallarge refineries and crushers, and the sale has been slow due to the dropof temperature, and dropped to 5,350 Yuan per ton late this week. Theimported crude soyoil prices have been at 5,750-5,780 Yuan per ton inTianjin and 5,800-5,850 Yuan per ton in Jiangsu and Shandong.

Oct. 21, 2004 INDIA - Late rains in key oilseed-growing regions haveimproved the prospects of India's winter crop and the resultant soilmoisture would boost the size of the summer crop, traders said onWednesday. The winter crop is sown in July and harvested by late November,while the summer crop is ready for harvest in April. Groundnut and soybeanare the main winter crops, while rapeseed forms bulk of the summer crop. "We are in for a bumper summer crop," said Sandeep Bajoria, president ofthe Central Organisation for Oil Industry and Trade. "We might surpasslast year's summer oilseed crop size of 10 million tonnes." India, theworld's top edible oil buyer, imports 40 percent of its annual needs of 11million tonnes. It buys palm oils from Malaysia and Indonesia and softoils from Argentina and Brazil. The oilseed sector in India, the world'sfourth-largest vegetable oil producer, has a turnover of about $15 billiona year. The country has 1,500 oil mills, 600 solvent extraction units and500 refining units. Traders said winter oilseed output was expected to beat least a million tonnes lower than last year's 13.9 million tonnes dueto erratic rains in the middle of the June-September monsoon season.Sowing in oilseed-growing states including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh andMaharashtra was delayed and staggered, and those states got almost no rainat all during the sowing month of July. But late rains in September andearly October have made up for that shortfall to some extent and the soilmoisture would help the next summer crop, traders said. The farm ministrysaid crop scientists have advised farmers to make the best use of themoisture, recommending early sowing of mustard and rapeseed in thenorthern plains. Bajoria said late rains have helped sowing of summercrops, mainly rapeseed in the largest-growing state of Rajasthan.