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6/2/06 KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--With global oil prices remaining high, palm oil prices are expected to move to a higher range in 2006 as the commodity stands to benefit from the expansion of the global biofuels industry, a Malaysian plantations industry executive said.

3/2/2006 (India Infoline) - Malaysian Palm Oil Promotion Council (MPOPC) on Thursday announcd that YBhg Tan Sri Datuk Dr Yusof Basiron, a seasoned captain with extensive experience in the palm oil industry has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of MPOPC, effective January 19, 2006.

2/2/06 MIRI(The Star) - The people of Ulu Teru district in remote northern Sarawak invested their hard-earned money 10 years ago to buy oil palm seedlings for a project.

2/2/06 Mumbai (Business Line) - JANUARY saw a further decline in vegetable oil imports. According to preliminary data made available to Business Line by the industry portal Oilmandi.com, arrivals last month totalled 1.88 lakh tonnes comprising approximately 70,000 tonnes of crude degummed soyabean oil, 98,000 tonnes of crude palm oil and about 10,000 tonnes each of refined palmolein and crude sunflower oil.

5/2/06 (The Edge Daily) - Investors returned from the long Chinese New Year holidays to a rousing rally on Feb 3 - despite the fact that many investors were still away for the long break.

4/2/2006 (Business Times) - THE proposed palm oil pact between Malaysia and Indonesia, the world's first and second largest producers respectively, will curb price undercutting and spur research and development (R&D) activities.

3/2/06 NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Thurs: Edible oil imports by India, the world's largest buyer, are likely to decline by 21 per cent in the first quarter of 2006 because of strong domestic supplies, a top industry official said today.

With the European Directive targeting 5.75% biofuels usage by 2010 the industry is mobilising, biorefineries are being built and contracts draw up with feedstock suppliers across the region.

30/1/2006 Business Times (Malaysia) - DXN Holdings Bhd has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Future Nutri Sdn Bhd, is setting up a 50:50 joint-venture company with Green Diesel Corp from the US to venture into the biodiesel business.

2/2/06 (Sun Star) - THREE more towns in Sarangani province were identified as oil palm investment areas that could accommodate 80,000 hectares for the crop's cultivation.

1/2/06 (The Star) - About 100 settlers of Perlop Land Scheme in Sungai Siput are putting up with losses worth millions of ringgit after wild elephants destroyed some 50ha of their young oil palm trees.

31/1/06 New Delhi, (New Kalara.com) - Government today reduced tariff value for crude soybean oil by eight dollar and crude palm oil by three dollar in its fortnightly revision for major edible oil imports.