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16/10/06 (The Times of India) MUMBAI: To offset rising costs of palm oil derivatives that go into soap making, Godrej Consumer Products has effected a price increase in soaps.

13/10/06 ( Financial Times) LOndon - The Liberian government of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has secured its first significant foreign investment, weeks before it hopes to complete the renegotiation of a controversial iron-ore concession signed by her predecessor with Mittal Steel.

16/10/06 DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43554) has announced the addition of 2005-2006 China Oil & Oil Plants Market Review & Outlook to their offering.

16/10/06 (The Financial Times) - The price of wheat has risen this year for the same ­reasons it did in the days of the pharaohs: the weather and the harvest. But looming in the not too distant future - perhaps the year after next - is an entirely new source of demand for agricultural commodities that could keep prices high into the next decade.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) and Palm Oil Refiners Association Malaysia (PORAM) will be organising the International Palm Oil Trade Fair and Seminar (POTS 2006) from Nov 21-24 at Shangri-La Hotel here.

KUALA LUMPUR: It is still commercially viable to produce palm-based biodiesel despite weakening crude oil prices, said Golden Hope Plantations Bhd chief executive Datuk Sabri Ahmad.

16/10/06 (Reuters) PEKANBARU, Indonesia - Southeast Asian nations failed on Friday to agree on a detailed plan to tackle Indonesian forest fires, telling Jakarta it must ratify a smog pact before it could expect large amounts of aid.

16/10/06 (NSTP) - THE impending entry of the MARPOL Annex II and the International Bulk Chemicals Code effective 1 January 2007 that will affect all vessels engaged in the carriage of chemicals and vegetable oil is expected to create severe shortage of shipping space for palm oil shippers in Malaysia.

11/10/06 (The Edge News) - Malaysia's crude palm oil output rose 4.73% in September from the previous month to 1,609,939 tonnes, the Malaysian Palm Oil Board said on Oct 11.

10/08/2006 (Philippine Daily Inquirer) - STATE-RUN SMALL BUSINESS Guarantee and Finance Corp. said it had approved a P50-million wholesale credit line to help spur the development of the palm oil processing industry in Bohol and some parts of Mindanao.

7/10/06 (The Hindu) - KOTTAYAM: Kottayam-based Oil Palm India Ltd. (OPIL) a Central-State joint venture, has decided to focus on the Malabar region for expansion of oil palm cultivation, company chairman V.B. Binu has said.

10 Oct 2006(NSTP) - KULAI: A palm oil mill in Kelapa Sawit found polluting the air was issued a stop-work order yesterday.