Berita Arkib

9/10/06 (Daily Express News) - Sandakan: A village has succeeded in protecting its oil palm crop and cemetery from damage by wild elephants by erecting an electrified fence.

10/10/06 (New York Times) - Outlandish portions. Sky-high salt content. Employees who don't wash their hands. There are hazards aplenty at your favorite restaurant, but now health officials in New York and Chicago believe that they have cornered a real killer in the kitchen: the trans fats in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils used for frying and baking

11/10/2006 (EE Times Europe) - LONDON - Ericssson has joined forces with the GSM Association and multinational telecommunications group MTN to promote the use of biofuels as an alternative source of power for wireless networks in the developing world.

10/10/06 (NSTP) - CRUDE palm oil prices (CPO), which have weakened 6 per cent over the past three months, may soften further, dragged by depressed crude oil prices when compared with palm oil-based biodiesel.

10/10/06 NANJING (Xinhua) -- Austrian company Biolux on Tuesday started construction on a wholly-owned project to produce biological diesel oil in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province.

3/10/06 (New Kerala) New Delhi, - The Government has retained the base price for levying import duty on palm oil to keep their prices under check.

3/10/06 (The Star) - MUAR: Demand for bio-diesel fuel will boost palm oil prices, said Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.

3/10/06 (Sun Star) - ZAMBOANGA Sibugay is eyeing to become the center of oil palm industry in Zamboanga Peninsula having at least 113,000 hectares open for investors to develop oil palm plantations.

3/10/06 (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) AMES, Iowa -- In his cramped lab at Iowa State University here, Walt Fehr developed a soybean whose oil could help eliminate one of the biggest problems facing the food industry today: trans fats blamed for everything from heart disease to hypertension to memory loss.

JAMBI, Oct 2 (Bernama) -- Jambi deputy governor Antony Zeidra Abidin held an impromptu meeting Sunday with a number of head of agencies and related authorities under his administration to deal with the increasingly thickening fog over Jambi, caused by forest and oil palm plantation fire.

2/10/06 (The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The ban on the herbicide paraquat will be temporarily lifted from Nov 1, to allow a comprehensive study on its many uses

2/10/06 (The Star) - KENINGAU: A proposed mini estate to benefit the poor in this interior Sabah district has instead got a group of farmers up in arms as they claim the project will cause them to lose the land they had been tilling for more than two decades.