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AI boom is turning Malaysia’s palm oil estates into data centres
CPO prices to stay elevated on firm demand and tight supply
CPO price dip seen as temporary, stocks to rise in November: CIMB Securities
Malaysia lowers December crude palm oil reference price, maintains duty at 10%
Bakrie to expand oil palm plantation area through joint venture
17/7/07 Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Publicly-listed PT Bakrie Sumatra Plantation Tbk has set up a joint venture company, Agri Resources BV, with several foreign investors to expand its oil palm plantation area.
Indonesia drafting regulation for domestic palm oil supplies
16/7/07 (Xinhua) - The Indonesian government is drafting a regulation to ensure domestic supplies of crude palm oil (CPO) following cooking oil shortage that caused price to soar in recent months, local press said Monday.
Regulators approve world's largest listed palm oil firm
17/7/07 KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - Malaysian regulators have approved the creation of the world's largest listed palm oil firm, the company said Tuesday.
Biofuel demand makes fried food expensive in Indonesia
18/7/07 JAKARTA (Reuters) - Record-high palm oil prices due to voracious global demand for the oil used for food and now increasingly as a biofuel have left many ordinary Indonesians without their usual culinary fare.
Govt told to drop draft bylaw on forest fire control
13/7/07 The Jakarta Post, Jakarta - Greenpeace has urged the central government not to endorse a draft bylaw on the control of forest fires in Riau province, saying articles in the draft could increase slash-and-burn practices in the province.
Not just palm oil
15/7/07 (The Star) - The Guthrie Foundation's new fellowship is aimed at finding ways to get the best out of what oil palm can offer.
Palm oil wrangle hits biofuel company
13/7/07 Guardian Unlimited) - Shares in Renewable Power and Light, a UK-listed company that aims to generate electricity from palm oil, crashed today after the company warned it expected to make a loss for the full year.
Renewable Power warns of loss, shares plunge
13/7/07 LONDON, (Reuters) - Shares in Renewable Power and Light Plc (RPL.L: Quote, Profile , Research) lost more than half their value because it expects to make a loss in 2007 instead of a $25 million pretax profit predicted by the house broker, the firm said on Friday.
Malaysia palm oil at 1-month high on soyoil
14/7/07 (Reuters) - KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian crude palm oil futures ended at one-month highs on Friday, after prices of rival soybean oil rose due to lower US government estimates for soybean reserves.
