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15/08/2005 (Sunday Business Post - Authorities in central Malaysia plan totake legal action against oil palm plantation owners who burnedagricultural waste, defying a ban that was installed to ease the chokingsmog caused by fires in Indonesia.

15/08/2005JAKARTA (Associated Press) - Indonesia's proposal to build theworld's largest palm oil plantation along its border with Malaysia wouldhave a devastating impact on forests, wildlife and the local population,an environmental group warned Monday.

13/08/05 KULIM, Indonesia - Palm oil farmers have used fire to clear theirland of tall grass, shrubs and trees for years, without any idea that thenoxious fumes caused problems in neighboring Malaysia or anywhere else.

12/08/05 JAKARTA, (Asia Pulse) - The Oil Palm Research Center (PPKS) inMedan will start commercial production of biodiesel oil with a dailyoutput of 20 tons.

16/08/05 KUALA LUMPUR, (Bernama) -- Malaysia is gearing towardsself-sufficiency in paper products with the anticipation of more pulp andpaper mills coming on stream in the future.

16/08/05 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd. Tuesday deniednewspaper reports alleging two of its units were among Malaysian companiesthat started massive fires last week in Indonesia to clear land forplantations.

17/08/05 (Financial Times ) - Discussions between the TanzaniaInvestment Centre (TIC) and a group of Malaysian investors are at anadvanced stage for the latter to start commercial farming of palm oil inKigoma, the Financial Times has learnt.

16/08/05 KARACHI (Daily Times) - Palm oil import is expected to increaseby 30 percent to 40 percent amid high domestic demand and a bearish worldoil price outlook, importers and dealers said on Tuesday.

August 17, 2005 (Cape Argus) - The healthy or not oil debate has taken anew turn - local research has turned up a tropical oil that appears to notonly protect against the consequences of a heart attack, but is also anatural source of vitamin A.

12/08/05 WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (U.S. Newswire) -- Plans to create theworld's largest palm oil plantation along Indonesia's mountainous borderwith Malaysia could have a devastating impact on the forests, wildlife andindigenous people of Borneo, warns World Wildlife Fund.

11/08/2005 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - U.S. commodity trading giantCargill is in talks to buy a Malaysian-based palm oil refinery for about250 million ringgit, or $65.7 million, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

PETALING JAYA, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri AbdullahAhmad Badawi said the government was formulating a national biofuel policyto encourage the production and use of palm oil based biofuel as analternative and environment friendly energy source.