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30/6/06 9soyatech,com) - Green Star Products, Inc. (OTC:GSPI) (GreenStarUSA.com) announced today that it has finalized negotiations with a Consortium of Companies to produce up to 500-million gallons of Biofuels annually within five years.

24/6/06 (The Star) - PETALING JAYA: TSH Resources Bhd is banking on its soon-to-be-completed palm oil refinery in Kunak, Tawau, to fuel the company's growth in the near future.

26/6/06 (The Edge News) - The US-Malaysia free trade agreement (FTA) can be concluded by year-end as major benefits far outweigh any negative impacts, according to US-based Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition (TAAC) executive director Howard Rosen.

PUTRAJAYA, June 26 (Bernama) -- Malaysia and Kazakhstan Monday signed an agreement on the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income between two countries.

26/6/06 (The Star) - BIOFUEL stocks continue to ignite interest in the US. VeraSun Energy Corp, an ethanol producer, made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange in the middle of the month and drove off to a racy start.

21/6/06 (Asia Times) JAKARTA - Indonesia and Malaysia through their state-run oil and gas companies, Pertamina and Petronas respectively, will establish a cooperation in the exploitation of oil and gas resources and a joint research to produce palm oil-based biodiesel.

26/6/2006 (soyatech.com) - A glut of glycerinon world markets has caused prices of this versatile chemical to take a nosedive over the past year. The present oversupply of glycerin is mostly due to surging biodiesel fuel programs in Western Europe, which generate glycerin as a byproduct. Another factor is the rapid growth of the plant-derived oleochemicals industry in Southeast Asia, which also churns out excess glycerin.

20/6/06 ( Allafrica,com) - Tanzania will delay the implementation of the Common External Tariff (CET) rate of zero per cent on crude palm oil, for one year, and instead impose a duty rate of 10 per cent.

BEIJING, June 19 (Bernama) -- The viability of palm oil as a clean alternative fuel has prompted several mainland China firms to seek palm oil waste from Malaysia to produce biodiesel amid spiking crude petroleum prices.

21/6/06 9The Edge Daily) - Boustead Holdings Bhd group is setting up an Islamic real estate investment trust (I-REIT) to be listed on the Main Board involving some of its oil palm estates and mills with a total value of up to RM570 million.

20/6/6 (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and visiting Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi met Tuesday to discuss the progress of a number of collaboration agreements in the energy and palm oil sectors.