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31/7/06 (TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ ) - NEW DELHI: In an effort to put the derailed free trade agreement talks with the Asean back on track, India is considering a gradual reduction in import duties on palm oil for Asean members with the rider that duty cuts should take place after a five-year period.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 (Bernama) -- Malaysia remains committed to ensuring sustainable forest management and is not a party to illegal logging in the region.

31/7/06 (The Edge Daily) - Loss-making EcoFirst Consolidated Bhd hopes to turn around in the next two to three years with plans to venture into biotechnology and to expand its plantation land in India.

28/706 LONDON (Reuters) - Food labels should list the amount of trans fat along with cholesterol and saturated fat so consumers can make healthier choices to reduce their risk of heart disease, British public health experts said on Friday.

28/7/06 (The Star) SHANGHAI: Golden Hope Plantations Bhd has formed a joint venture in China to set up a plant to produce a palm-oleochemical product used for making detergent.

27/7/06 (The Star) - I agree with Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui that there is currently no effective measure to eliminate the cancer-like oil palm disease known as Ganoderma Basal Stem Rot (BSR), which is causing serious losses to the oil palm industry.

27/7/06 (The Star) - ARE we ready to capitalise on the expected increase in palm oil prices? The answer is a sad "no" simply because our palm oil yields had stagnated for so many years.

27/7/06 (NSTP) - MALAYSIA'S palm oil exports can reach RM29 billion this year, about 2 per cent higher than last year's figure, helped by high demand for crude palm oil (CPO).

26/7/06 (NSTP) - BEIJING: Palm oil-based biodiesel futures could become the latest derivatives product on Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Bhd and companies which own and operate biodiesel plants could also seek to list their shares on the Mesdaq market.

28/7/06 (NSTP) - SHANGHAI: Golden Hope Plantations Bhd (GHope) plans to set up palm oil-based biodiesel plants, one each in China and South Korea, to ride on both the countries' initiatives to reduce dependency on expensive fossil fuels.

25/7/06 (NSTP) - UNIVERSITI Teknologi Malaysia's (UTM) RM4.5 million expansion of its chemical engineering pilot plant (CEPP) in Skudai, Johor, will see its production capacity go up by 10 times by March 2007.

25/7/06 (NSTP) - BEIJING: China, which is Malaysia's top palm oil buyer, is mulling building its first-ever palm oil-based biodiesel plant to reduce its dependency on expensive fossil fuel.