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WHO warning A BOON for palm oil
LETTER: IT was in the early 1990s when it became clear that trans fat was the real culprit behind the rise in cardiovascular diseases around the world. Prior to that, saturated fats were always the bad boy. When scientists found out that trans fat was more deleterious, the news shocked the worl...
Malaysia keeps February crude palm oil export duty at 8%
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has maintained its February export tax for crude palm oil at 8% and raised its reference price, a circular on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website showed on Thursday. The world’s second-largest palm exporter calculated a reference price of RM3,893.25 ($917.14) per tonne ...
EU palm oil ban will not impact M’sia as the block imports relatively low amount of the commodity
PETALING JAYA: The European Union’s (EU) import ban on palm oil and other commodities will not affect Malaysia, said Heriot-Watt University professor and palm oil industry researcher Dr Denny K.S. Ng. Malaysia’s main export countries are India and China, and the EU as a bloc imports much lower ...
Using strategic approach
MALAYSIA and Indonesia’s commitment to strengthening cooperation through the Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) to fight discriminative trade policies against palm oil is an encouraging development for the oil palm industry. This is a strategic approach by the CPOPC, an organisati...
Malaysia must continue to engage with the European Union
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia must continue to engage with the European Union (EU) and EU stakeholders to ensure that perspectives from producing and exporting countries are taken into consideration. “(The continued engagement is important) as it can possibly contribute to the shaping of future legal instr...
Malaysia and Indonesia agree to fight discrimination against palm oil
The comments by Indonesian President Joko Widodo (right) followed a meeting with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who was making his first overseas trip since being elected in November.–A BOGOR, Indonesia (Jan 9): Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s biggest pr...
