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Norway Mulls Palm Oil Ban

Contradiction in terms The speed at which news moves around the world today has opened the floodgates to a flurry of questionable news that deliberately misleads and misinforms. ‘Fake...

Questionable Trade Moves against Palm Oil

In the EU, efforts to limit the importation, distribution and sale of palm oil and products using palm oil have been intensifying. It appears as though domestic competitors of...

Still No Consensus on Sustainability Criteria for Biofuels

The EU and the US have implemented legal frameworks regarding the ‘sustainability’ or ‘renewability’, respectively, or biofuels. Although some palm-oil-based biofuels continue to enter the EU and the US,...

Malaysia – EU FTA – Why an annex on vegetable oils is important

On 10 September 2010, the Member States of the European Union (EU) agreed that the European Commission (EC) could start negotiations with Malaysia aimed at the conclusion of a...

A New French Paradox and Palm Oil

The Minister Of Plantations Industries & Commodities Malaysia, Hon. Tan Sri Bernard Dompok and members of the Malaysian palm oil industry took a personal interest in visiting France recently...

Double Standards: The Biggest Challenge for the Palm Oil Industry

The Malaysian palm oil industry, together with the Sabah Wildlife Department, is organizing its second orang utan seminar in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah early next week under a broader title...

Sustainability in Aviation Fuel: Palm Oil is Part of the Solution

For many years, the aviation industry has been criticized for its high carbon GHG emission. Of the total global emissions, 56 % comes from burning of fossil fuels and...

Washington Dialogue on Sustainable Palm Oil – NGOs Fail to Sabotage Event

Recently, the Malaysian and Indonesian Ministers in charge of the palm oil industry had a roundtable dialogue with US NGOs, government officials and other food and non-food customers to...

The Case of WENGOs Blindly Pushing for Labelling of Palm Oil

The greatest flaw and danger by Australian Senate in the proposed palm oil labeling Bill is its discriminatory treatment of palm oil. The Bill was proposed based on WENGOs’...

Palm Oil: How Greenies Threaten Jobs and Food Security

The economic contribution of palm oil and other plantation commodities provided the assurance of a remunerative source of income and unlimited employment opportunities throughout the year for the people...

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