BANGI, Jan 11 — Palm oil stakeholders need to adhere to good labour practices, uphold labour standards and ensure no forced and child labour practices in the industry, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 10 — The country will delay the nationwide rollout of its B20 palm oil biodiesel mandate to early 2022 to prioritise an economy that has been battered by the Covid-19 pandemic, state news agency Bernama reported late Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 — Moody’s Investors Service said the United States Customs and Border Protection withhold release order (WRO) against palm oil giant Sime Darby Plantation Bhd's (SDP) products, which is premised on forced labour allegations, is credit negative.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 5 — The Malaysian government and palm oil industry players will continue to work hand-in-hand to guarantee that palm oil is sustainably produced and recognised as such around the globe, said the Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) chairman Datuk Osman Sapian.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 18 — Southeast Asia needs to gather the region’s top leadership and push the agenda towards a more global solution pertaining to palm oil issues that involve standard certification, while helping to diminish the discrimination against the commodity in the European Union (EU), said Dr Isabelle Tsakok, an economist and consultant in agriculture and rural development.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 — The increasing world population and demand opens up vast potential for palm oil suppliers to explore new markets, but some areas need to be improved to smoothen the whole supply chain and better facilitate purchases by countries or companies.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Italy’s Ambassador to Malaysia Cristiano Maggipinto said trade between Italy and Malaysia is more stable than Italy’s trade with other countries of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year despite the setbacks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 — The Malaysia Estate Owners’ Association (MEOA) is appealing for various taxes on the oil palm industry to be suspended or abolished, calling them “unfair”.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — Malaysia's palm oil export value to the global market would be affected if Malaysia no longer export the commodity and other palm-based products to the European Union (EU) as the region is the country's second-largest palm oil market after China, said the Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry (KPPK).

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 26 — Global food corporation, Cargill is investing US$20 million (RM81.5million) to expand and modernise its palm oil production facility in Port Klang, Selangor to meet the growing needs of the market and to better service its food and beverage customers in the region.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — Sime Darby Plantation Bhd has turned to black in the third quarter ended September 30, 2020 (Q3 2020) after recording a net profit of RM190 million against a net loss of RM243 million in Q3 2019.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) and Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA) urged anyone who has evidence of criminal or wrongful activity regarding rape and abuses in oil palm plantations to lodge the relevant reports with the appropriate law enforcement agencies.

By Norrasyidah Arshad SHAH ALAM, Nov 6 — Selangor Water Management Authority (Luas) has launched an investigation and taken immediate action following an accident involving a lorry carrying palm oil at KM276.1 of the North-South Expressway (Plus) this morning. The agency said the incident may...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 23 — Bursa Malaysia Derivatives (BMD) will organise the Palm and Lauric Oils Price Outlook Conference and Exhibition (POC) 2020 via an online platform, in light of the ongoing developments surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 13 — China today expressed its commitment to purchase 1.7 million tonnes of palm oil from Malaysia until 2023, said Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 1 - Malaysian palm oil producer FGV Holdings Bhd has taken steps to fix allegations that it uses forced labour and is disappointed with the United States' ban on imports of its products over the claims, the company said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 — Malaysia's palm oil producers are embarking on a rare recruitment drive to hire locals and accelerating industry mechanisation as they grapple with a severe shortage of foreign labour due to the coronavirus pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 17 — Asian palm oil producers, long at loggerheads with the European Union over curbs on imports of the edible oil, have offered to "work together" with the European Commission in drafting rules for the EU's latest 'Farm to Fork' food supply policy.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 — Malaysia's palm oil inventories at the end of June fell 6.33 per cent from the previous month, at 1.90 million tonnes, industry regulator the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) said on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 — Malaysia's Sime Darby Plantation on Wednesday said it will look into "serious allegations" of forced and child labour conditions in its estates after an activist group petitioned the US Customs to ban imports of its palm oil.