Berita Arkib

27/01/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd is delaying the listing of its Minamas Indonesia unit, after agreeing to a merger plan to form the world's largest listed palm oil planter, sources said.

28/01/07 BANGKOK (TNA) - In an attempt to boost consumption of alternative energy which could reduce oil imports, the Energy Ministry has set a revised bio-diesel consumption target on consumption at 500,000 litres per day this year with at least another 300 service stations to be set up nationwide.

29/01/07 (The Star) - FELDA Agricultural Services Sdn Bhd is set to push into new frontiers with its RM25mil biotechnology centre in Negri Sembilan, to be launched by Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tomorrow.

20/107 (NSTP) - TAIPING: Tan Sri Basir Ismail, one of the country's leading corporate figures, died early yesterday.

21/1/07 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUUR: LISTED plantation companies with large oil palm estates in flood-struck Johor expect the disaster to have a negligible impact on their full year earnings for 2006 and 2007.

22/1/07 (The Star) - FOREIGN brokerages expect the flood situation in Johor to give a short-term boost in the price of crude palm oil (CPO).

21/1/07 ( Pioneer Press) ATLANTA - Unhappy customers started calling soon after McDonald's announced plans in 2002 to reduce trans fats in french fries.

18/1/07 JAKARTA (AFP) - Growing European Union demand for bio-fuel could threaten Indonesia's last remaining forests as the government approves new palm oil plantations, environmental group Greenpeace warned.

15/1/07 (AP) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Boustead Properties on Monday launched a 229.7 million ringgit (US$64.5 million, Ã?54 million) initial public offer of Malaysia's first-ever oil palm plantation real estate investment trust.

17/1/07 (Daily Express News) NABAWAN - Some 500 residents representing seven kampungs have voiced their objections against the acquisition of their land - including their school, cemetery, kampungs and titled lands - by a private company for oil palm and rubber cultivation.

16/1/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - A 9.0 billion dollar merger of three Malaysian plantation companies to create the world's largest listed palm oil firm has hit a snag, with their majority shareholder getting cold feet, a report has said.