Berita Arkib

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.

17/1/07 (The Star) - PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia will go ahead with plans to merge three plantations firms to create the world's largest listed oil palm planter, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.

17/1/07 (rediff.com) - India is considering making concessions on the five-year "standstill" period for duty cuts on crude and refined palm oil, pepper and black tea imports in its proposed free trade agreement with the Association of South East Asian Nations, according to a senior commerce ministry official.

JAKARTA, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Japan's Kanematsu Corp. is considering building a biofuel plant using cassava as a feedstock in Indonesia, the industry minister said on Thursday. The bioethanol plant will have the capacity to produce 100,000 litre bioethanol per day, Fahmi Idris told reporters.