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No Palm Oil or Green Palm Oil? Retailers Face Labelling Dilemma
Retailers in Malaysia and Indonesia should ensure shoppers can easily find foods made with sustainable palm oil, instead of refusing to...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
MSPO-Certified Palm Oil to Europe By 2020
Malaysia is on track to export MSPO (Malaysia Sustainable Palm Oil) certified palm oil to Europe by next year. Malaysia Palm Oil...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Malaysia Seeks to Barter Arms Purchase with Palm Oil
Malaysia is in talks with at least six countries on the possibility of using palm oil to pay for arms, as Southeast Asia's third-biggest...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Government to Push for More Palm Oil Deals with Japan, Says Minister
The government is expected to initiate talks with Japanese food and beverage (F&B) firms that are involved in the 2020 Summer Olympics...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Government to Continue Driving Love MY Palm Oil Campaign
The government will continue to drive the Love MY Palm Oil campaign aggressively via the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) to ensure...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Malaysia Takes to Active Information Campaign Within EU on Palm Oil
Malaysia is going on the offensive to inform the European Union (EU) about their palm oil policy, and also prevent the EU from taking...
Oct 7, 20193 min read
Mahathir Dismisses Claims Linking Palm Oil to Deforestation
Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad dismissed as baseless the claims linking palm oil to deforestation, saying they are unfair and...
Oct 7, 20193 min read
High Time for Country to Diversify Palm Oil Usage.
It is time for Malaysia to discover more new uses of palm oil to create more demand for the commodity, in an effort to stabilise the...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Go for Inter-Cropping, Not Cutting Down of Oil Palm Trees, Says Teresa Kok
Palm oil prices are on an upward trend and there are no plans to chop down such trees. Assuring this, Primary Industries Minister Teresa...
Oct 7, 20193 min read
Teresa Kok: More Funds, Research Needed to Counter West’s Anti-Palm Oil Campaign
The Primary Industries and Commodities Ministry is in need of more money in order to conduct in-depth research on the benefits of palm...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Palm Oil Industry Makes Joint Call for CSPO Support
Sime Darby Plantation Bhd and the European Palm Oil Alliance (EPOA) as well as other industry associations, stakeholder companies and...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
'Expect Palm Oil Price Recovery'
Crude palm oil (CPO) price could be heading towards a recovery, according to local and international investment banks. This assumption...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Malaysia PM Mahathir Takes Aim at International Community over Anti-Palm Oil Narrative
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Monday (Jun 17) hit out at the international community's negative perceptions of the palm...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
Hoteliers Urged to Promote Palm Oil Benefits to Tourists
The Ministry of Primary Industries has called on hotel operators to play their part and promote palm oil benefits to foreign visitors....
Oct 7, 20191 min read
Biodiesel Price Must be Controlled, Says Kok
The government has set up a committee – comprising four ministries – to come up with a mechanism to control the price of biodiesel...
Oct 7, 20192 min read
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