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| The Price of Malaysia's Palm Oil Expansion
by Arun Bhattacharjee, The Asia Times Online
May 3rd, 2003
KOTA BARU, Malaysia -- Malaysia is being blamed by many European governments and conservationists for its drive to increase its oil-palm plantations at the expense of its rain forests and the habitats of tigers and orangutans. The country's minister for primary industries is off to Europe this month to attempt some damage control on the issue. As new plantations encroach on the habitat of tigers and orangutans, plantation workers are increasingly coming into conflict with these creatures - and it is the animals that are losing that conflict. |
| Mega hopes palm oil eases arms buying trip
by Kornelius Purba, The Jakarta Post
April 17th, 2003
Megawati may raise the question of purchasing Russian weapons, including the Sukhoi Su-30 KI, given that Indonesia reportedly is interested in procuring at least one squadron of jet fighters. |
| Palm Oil Debate Weighs Ice Cream and Elephants
by Patrick Chalmers, Reuters
February 27th, 2003
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Ice cream lovers and French fry fanatics would not know it but these foods put a taste of Malaysia in their mouths. |
| Iban and Bidayuh Communities Suing Oil Palm Company for Encroachment of NCR
BRIMAS
KUCHING - 50 Iban and Bidayuh families from the interior area of Serian District, Samarahan Division, Sarawak and hundreds more of their relatives and supporters some from as far as Lundu and Sri Aman packed the Kuching Court Complex this morning to witness the hearing of the High Court suit which the communities' filed against an oil palm company, Tetangga Akrab Sdn. Bhd. for encroachment into their native customary rights (NCR) land. |
| Part payment of Bakun dam project through palm oil
Sarawak Tribune
August 29th, 2002
KUCHING - Part of the payment for the contract work on the RM1.788-billion main dam of the Bakun hydro-electric project in central Sarawak is expected to be in the form of palm oil, according to a member of the consortium which will undertake the job. |
| IJM to Invest RM150mil in Sabah Plantation Ops
by Liau Y-Sing , The Star
August 11th, 2002
IJM Corp Bhd, which is injecting its plantation business into Rahman Hydraulic Tin Bhd, will invest between RM120mil and RM150mil to strengthen its plantation operations in Sabah. This investment will include the construction of a crude palm oil (CPO) mill and the development of about a third of the company's total acreage. |
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