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Global Economy

The end of cheap palm oil? Output stalls as biodiesel demand surges

Used in everything from cakes and frying fats to cosmetics and cleaning products, palm oil makes up more than half of global vegetable oil shipments and is especially popular among consumers in...

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World+Biz

Malaysian palm oil stocks hit 19-month low in December as output drops

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Markets

Palm oil price rises Tk850 per maund

An infant Bornean orangutan is seen with its mother at a rehabilitation centre in Sepilok, Malaysia August 17, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain
South Asia

Malaysia announces adopt-an-orangutan plan for palm oil importers

Palm oil fruits are seen placed on a wheelbarrow at a palm oil farm in Klang, outside Kuala Lumpur, 19 February 2014. Photo: REUTERS
Bloomberg Special

El Niño is biggest wildcard for world’s most consumed edible oil

Children play with a ball after rice is spread for drying at a rice mill on the outskirts of Kolkata, India, 31 January 2019. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri/File Photo
World+Biz

From rice to palm oil, Asian crops output forecast lower as El Nino strengthens

Super palm oil being sold as loose soybean at higher rate
Markets

Super palm oil being sold as loose soybean at higher rate

Workers handle palm oil fruits at an oil palm plantation in Slim River, Malaysia August 12, 2021. Picture taken August 12, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File Photo
Bangladesh

Malaysian palm oil firms say they are not hiring from Bangladesh over recruitment concerns

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Global Economy

Indonesia to review its palm oil export quota ratio -ministry

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Global Economy

Malaysian urges palm oil producers to boost cooperation after EU rules

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim talks with Indonesian President Joko Widodo during their meeting at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, Indonesia, January 9, 2023. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan
Global Economy

Indonesia agrees to work with Malaysia to fight "discrimination" against palm oil

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Global Economy

Malaysia keeps January crude palm oil export duty at 8%

In the absence of local factories, there’s not much else to do other than cutting down the palm trees, according to a palm tree planter. Photo: Sanjida Jui
Panorama

Oil palm plantation: A hype that never came to fruition