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29/12/06 (The Financial Times)KARACHI - Palm products import has been halted as international prices have hit $650 fence on Thursday's trading. Importers said that till Wednesday, a few orders were placed in the international market for import of palm products, however, it was suspended when the prices crossed $640 per ton peak.

28/12/06 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Three of Malaysia's biggest plantation firms have begun moves to combine into the world's largest listed palm oil company ahead of signing a 8.86 billion US dollar merger deal next month.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 27 (Bernama) -- Malaysia's non-oil primary commodities -- crude palm oil (CPO), rubber and tin -- are in for a good 2007, riding high on continuous global market demand, analysts say.

21/12/06 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby and two of its unit on Thursday agreed to sell their businesses, marking the first step toward a complex merger involving seven other companies that will create the world's No.1 palm oil producer.

Palm oil firms set for bountiful harvest

22/12/06 KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian plantation firm Golden Hope has accepted a merger offer that is expected to create the world's largest listed palm oil planter worth $8.6 billion, it said on Friday.

26/12/2006 NEW DELHI, (PTI): Hoping for a breakthrough in Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to the association's summit in Kuala Lumpur next month, India has made its "most aggressive" offer to further cut down its negative list to 490.

20/12/06 (www.nieuwsbank.nl) - On 20 December the EU Council of Ministers is expected to decide on the withdrawal of tariff preferences for products, including oils and fats, originating in Belarus.

18/12/06, KUALA LUMPUR (www.iht.com) - Malaysian palm oil producer Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd. said it will buy Swiss specialty oleochemical producer Dr. W. Kolb Holding AG for 135 million Swiss francs (US$110.5 million; €84.4 million) in cash.

18/12/06 (NSTP) - KOTA KINABALU: Only a handful of oil palm plantations in the Kinabatangan district have restored riparian reserves, a fact that has irked Kinabatangan MP Datuk Bung Moktar Radin.

19/12/06 (The Star) - GUTHRIE Foundation will offer scholarships to researchers to conduct post-doctoral studies soon.