Berita Arkib

21/7/06 (The Hindu) - After wheat, pulses and sugar, it could be the turn of edible oil to receive policymakers' attention. All's not well on the edible oil price front.

21/7/06 ( NSTP) - PUTRAJAYA: Plantation owners found guilty of open burning and contributing to the haze will lose their licence to sell oil palm fruit.

21/7/06 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The world's top palm oil producers, Malaysia and Indonesia, have decided to set aside nearly 40% of their crude palm oil output for biodiesel production, the Plantation Industries and Commodities ministry said yesterday.

20/7/06 (Daily Express) - Kota Kinabalu: Oil palm mills in the State can no longer discharge treated or partially-treated effluents into rivers or any waterway but back into the soil provided the effluents have been treated to the specification of Bio-chemical Oxygen Demand (BOD3) level not exceeding 1,000 mg/l or re-processed into compost.

19/7/06 9The Star) - KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has come out with strict guidelines to stop oil palm mills from discharging effluents into its rivers.

20/7/06 (The Jakarta Post, Jakarta) - The government is preparing to build eight biodiesel factories in the country in a move to provide an alternative to expensive fossil-based fuels.

19/07/2006 The Jakarta Post, Medan) - Indonesia and Malaysia have agreed to allocate 500,000 euro (about US$394,000) to pay the fees of a consultant or joint spokesman to counter campaigns launched by non-governmental organizations against palm oil production in the two countries.

KOTA KINABALU, July 18 (Bernama) -- The project by the Sabah state government to turn Lahad Datu into a palm oil downstream processing hub called Palm Oil Industrial Cluster (POIC) has received warm response from foreign investors but lukewarm response from Malaysian investors, said POIC Sabah Sdn Bhd's chairman Datuk Dr Ewon Ebin.

JAKARTA, July 18 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) will donate US$10,000 (RM37,000) for victims of the tsunami that hit Java island Monday.

17/7/06 JAKARTA (Reuters) - The world's largest instant noodle maker, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk , plans to merge its five units in the palm oil industry business into a sixth unit to increase efficiency, one of the subsidiaries involved in the merger said on Monday.

SINGAPORE, July 19 (Reuters) - Singapore-listed Wilmar International said on Wednesday it has completed a reverse takeover of EzyHealth Asia Pacific Ltd. and in compliance with regulations, it will sell 375 million shares in the company's enlarged and paid-up share capital.

19/7/06 (The Edge News) - Kota Kinabalu: Investors are lining up to buy industrial land for palm oil related investment in the State Government-owned palm oil industrial cluster (POIC) in Lahad Datu, Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said.