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Malaysia's total palm oil stocks surge 24.54% to 3.51mil tonnes in Sept
CPO Futures Close Lower On Weaker Soybean Oil Prices
Palm oil falls to 11-week low on weak exports, rising output
CPO Futures End Lower In Line With Weak Regional Vegetable Oil Markets
Coconut oil ignites healthy debate
25/10/2007 (GulfNews.com), Dubai - Doctors warned 30 years ago about a possible link between heart attacks and coconut oil commonly used in cooking by south Indian expatriates.
Palm kernel derived from processing of the oily fruit
25/102/2007 (Taranaki Daily News) - Palm kernel is derived from the oil palm, a native to West Africa and Central and South America.
Wider use of bio fuels
26/10/2007 (The Star Online) - LAWS to encourage the setting up of bio-diesel and bio-fuel pumps at petrol stations have to be made as oil prices are spiralling.
Move to ban import of palm oil
25/10/2007 (The Hindu), HYDERABAD: The Government is contemplating a move to ban sale of imported palm oil in the State with a view to ensuring a better price for groundnut oil and thereby protecting the interests of the groundnut farmers.
Edible oil & oilseed prices firm up on festival demand
25/10/2007 (The Economic Times), Mumbai - Edible oilseed and oil prices are ruling firm in spot and futures market due to festive demand and demand from millers in addition to firmness in the international market. Meanwhile, high petroleum prices has scaled up freights rates that may decrease edible oil imports so that there is a overall bullish sentiment driving up the price.
‘Eating palm oil lowers cholesterol in healthy people’
25/10/2007 (Nigerian Tribune) - The palm oil and the blood cholesterol controversy may have been put to rest with scientists from Brazil declaring that a diet rich in crude palm oil may reduce LDL (bad) cholesterol and triacylglycerol in healthy, young individuals.
Cooking oil rates to stay high
10/25/2007 (The International News), Lahore - The prices of edible oils in international market have reached 30-year high with palm oil touching $915-$920 and soybean $955-$960 per tonne there is no chance of locally processed cooking oil and ghee rates coming down, industry representatives said Wednesday.
Uzbekistan: shortage of cooking oil in Tashkent stores is reported
24/10/2007 (Ferghana.ru) - Cooking oil, both vegetable and cotton, has essentially disappeared from Tashkent stores. The stores that used to sell numerous brands (local and imported from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Iran) are empty nowadays.
Does palm oil alleviate rural poverty in Malaysia?
23/10/2007 (Mongabay) - While it is often argued that the economic benefits of oil palm plantations outweigh the environmental costs of converting biodiverse ecosystems to monocultures, new analysis suggests that the role of plantations in reducing rural poverty may be overstated.
