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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Bernama) -- TSH Resources Bhd (TSH) will producepulp and paper from empty fruit bunches (EFB) and palm oil mill effluents(POME) by the end of 2006, its executive deputy chairman, Datuk AzizanAbdul Rahman, said Friday.

10/6/2004 FINANCIAL EXPRESS - Good soyabean harvest in the US is likely tohave a dampening impact on the crude palm oil (CPO) prices in theMalaysian market. The CPO prices are likely to drop by about 12% toRM1,300 per tonne from the current level of RM 1,450 a tonne by the firstquarter of 2005, said Dr James Fry, managing director of LMC InternationalLtd. Presenting a paper at the Oils and Fats International Congress(OFIC-2004)

JAKARTA, 10/06 -Export of Indonesia`s crude palm oil (CPO) is predicted todecline by 20 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004, an industry executivesaid Tuesday.

Wednesday October 6, 2:25 PM KUALA LUMPUR (Dow Jones)--Pakistan's palm oilimports, which surged in the last two months, are expected to slow duringthe rest of the year with full-year intake unlikely to exceed the 2003total, an industry official said.

06/10/04 JAKARTA (Dow Jones)--Major palm oil players and non-governmentalorganizations plan to produce standards and criteria for a sustainablepalm oil industry within a year, the Roundtable On Sustainable Palm Oil,or RSPO, said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is ready to push forward itsbiotechnology industry with a series of collaborations and joint-ventureswith international biotechnology companies before the end of the year,Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Datuk Dr Jamaludin Jarjis,said here Monday.

10/5/2004 - Cargill, the largest private firm in the US, will link up withbiotech giant Monsanto to bring food makers an alternative source ofsoybean oil, used to reduce the artery-clogging trans fats in foodproducts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- Foreign parties, including the World Bankand International Monetary Fund (IMF), had no say in the legislation ofMalaysia's macro economic policies, especially those concerningprivatisation, finance, liberalisation and trade deregulation, the DewanRakyat here was told Tuesday.

JAKARTA, Oct 5 Asia Pulse - Indonesia will expand its palm oil plantationsin Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua, Agriculture Minister Bungaran Saragihsaid.

JAKARTA (Dow Jones): Indonesia plans to increase exports of fatty acids toEuropean Union countries due to high consumption of the palm oilbyproduct, the Indonesian Oleochemical Manufacturers Association (Apolin), said Tuesday.

10/5/2004 CHEMICAL BUSINESS NEWSBASE - Biofuels, aimed at reducing varioustypes of atmospheric pollution related to transport systems, are in anactive phase of development in Western Europe, and particularly in France,spurred on by the Public Authorities. Within this framework, Technip hasrecently won six contracts, worth about EUR 35 M altogether, for ethanoland biodiesel units, which for most of them, implement the Technip Group'sproprietary Speichim technologies.

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