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PETALING JAYA, April 13 (Bernama) -- The government will extend the trial runs using the B5 bio-fuel to commercial vehicles by the middle of this year, Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said.

MUKAH, April 10 (Bernama) -- Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said there are plans to construct four more crude palm oil (CPO) mills in Mukah soon, in addition to the current one in operation.

PAPUA, April 7 (Bernama) -- A Malaysian giant company will open sugar cane and oil palm plantations in Merauke district, Papua in a bid to support a development program in the district, Antara News Agency reported quoting a local official as saying.

06/04/2006 (Food Nevigator.com) - Dalian Commodity Exchange, China's largest futures exchange by volume, is considering introducing palm oil futures, allowing food processors to hedge risks on the increasingly used ingredient.

8/4/06 PARIS (AFP) - Moisturisers made of cane sugar and cocoa butter, coffee grain exfoliants and palm oil sunscreen

8/4/06 NEW DELHI,(PTI): Roadblocks in the way of ASEAN-India Free Trade Agreement appear to have been removed following Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention on the crucial issue of sensitive farm products like pepper, rubber, palm oil, coffee and tea.

April 5 2006 (Business Times) - THE Government has issued 14 licences for biodiesel projects in Malaysia so far, International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said yesterday.

1/4/06 KUALA LUMPUR (The Star) - Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producers, will use a planned joint board to oversee the pricing of the commodity used in soaps and cooking.

5/4/06 KUALA LUMPUR (The Star) - Lembaga Tabung Haji will partner a China-based company to acquire a palm oil refinery in Indonesia for about US$15mil as an initial step into biodiesel development.

31/4/06 (The Star) - THE Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has been the pioneer in researching and turning crude palm oil into fuel substitute.

4/4/06 (The Star) - GUA MUSANG: Oil palm mill specialist CB Industrial Product Holding Bhd (CBIP) is in negotiations with several large plantation groups including Asiatic Development Bhd to supply them with its modular Modipalm automated palm oil mills, managing director Lim Chai Beng said.

4/4/06 Mumbai(Business Line) - Contrary to expectations of strong prices following unusually shrill hype about bio-diesel demand over the last several months, the global vegetable oil market is now bracing itself for soft prices, aided by a large soyabean crop harvested in South America and mounting stocks of palm oil in Malaysia.