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MPOB Monthly Report Imminent: Malaysia's Palm Oil Stockpiles May Surge Past 2.6 Million Tonnes as Strong El Niño Fuels Distant-Month Supply Cut Expectations
Malaysia’s palm oil stocks rise in July despite 14.5pc jump in exports
Malaysian end of July palm oil stocks hit near two-year high
CPO futures end mostly higher on soybean oil gains
Felda Eyes Overseas Estates
06/07/2009 (Business Times) - The government-owned agency has received offers from Colombia, Brunei, Myanmar and Africa to open estates in these countries
IOI to Spend RM450 Million to Expand Fats Business
02/07/2009 (Bloomberg) - IOI Corp, Malaysia's second largest palm oil producer, will invest RM450 million (US$128 million) this fiscal year to expand its specialty fats business to take advantage of higher profit margins.
IOI Corp : Worst Over for Plantation Sector
02/07/2009 (Business Times) - IOI Corp, Malaysia’s No 2 planter, said today that the worst was over for the plantation sector as palm oil prices have recovered from last year’s slump although M&A activity would be muted.
Felda Global Has Investment Plans of Over RM6 Billion
01/07/2009 (Bernama), Kuala Lumpur — Felda Global Ventures Holdings plans to invest more than RM6 billion over the next five years to expand its overseas presence in the core plantations and related businesses.
India seeks palm oil import delays-Oil World
30/06/2009 (Reuters), Hamburg - Some Indian importers are seeking to postpone palm oil shipments from June to July as large domestic vegetable oil stocks are pressuring prices, Hamburg-based oilseeds analysts Oil World said on Tuesday.
Palm oil development threatens Aceh\'s orangutans
30/06/2009 (The Jakarta Post) - Conservation campaigners in Britain are calling on supermarkets to stop selling products that contain palm oil harvested from environmentally sensitive areas in Indonesia.
Centre set to stock up cooking oil
30/06/2009 (The Economic Times), New Delhi - India is once again planning to beef up its public stocks of imported cooking oil amid concerns that a weak monsoon could affect sowing of key oilseeds and force prices to creep up in the coming festival months.
Govt plans to import up to 1 mn tonnes crude palm oil
30/06/2009 (The Economic Times) - India is planning to again build up its public stocks of imported cooking oil as prices are expected to creep up in the coming festival months. The oil would be sold in one-litre packs through ration shops to families below the poverty line.
The good oil on KFC lobby effort
28/06/2009 (The Northern Star) - A CAMPAIGN which started in Ballina and Lismore to lobby KFC to stop using palm oil has paid off.
