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CANCUN (Mexico), Sept 12 (Bernama) - Malaysia, whose palm oil exports tosome markets are subject to tariffs as high as 300 percent, has called onWorld Trade Organization (WTO) members to reduce such discriminatoryagricultural tariffs to more reasonable levels.

CANCUN (Mexico), Sept 9 (Bernama) -- For global trade talks to succeed,the fifth World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial conference must comeout with a statement which all the 148 WTO members will have to agreethrough explicit consensus, the Minister of International Trade andIndustry, Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz said.

Wednesday September 3, 2003 - PENANG: Police, who have arrested sixmembers of a syndicate that stole crude palm oil from a refinery in BukitTambun, Nibong Tebal, expect to pick up at least 20 more people soon.

NEW DELHI, Sept 2 (Bernama) -- Vegetable oil imports by India declinedsharply in August this year despite the coming festival season.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 28 (Bernama) -- Researcher and company director Yeo KimLuang has an interesting story to tell: Malaysia's humble palm oil biomasshas been more successful than other media produced by Japan, South Koreaor Germany in preventing soil erosion in sandstorm-prone deserts ofChina's outlying areas.

28/8/2003 - THE International Palm Oil Congress, or PIPOC 2003, organisedby the Malaysian Palm Oil Board ended yesterday with a challenge toindustry players to embark on newly identified applications for palm oilwhile focusing on better market access, branding, efficient productioncosts, quality and competitiveness.

27/8/2003 - Recycling oil palm wastes into animal feed can be a viablebusiness and will go a long way towards reducing Malaysia’s imports ofsuch feeds.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Indonesia's plan to become the largestproducer of palm oil has raised some concerns at the ongoing MPOBInternational Palm Oil Congress 2003 here, particularly on the amount ofdeforestation activity that would be involved.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- Who would imagine that in the second halfof the millinnieum, oil palm plantations would turn into something quitedifferent from what they are today.

28/8/2003 - JAMBI, a province in Indonesia, has the potential to becomethe preferred site for oil palm investments in the country, said IndonesiaOil Palm Research Institute statistician Dr Lalang Buana.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with a Canadian jointventure company, Eco-Partners (M) Sdn Bhd, to build a pilot plant by thatcan convert empty fruit bunches (EFB), fibre and shell into dry finepowders or Nanomass by 2004.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- The oil palm industry has to push for theadoption of mechanisation to increase productivity while decreasing thenumber of manpower, particularly in the importation of foreign workers.