JAKARTA -Indonesia has issued around 302,000 tonnes of palm oil export permits since the country restarted exports, senior ...

Found in everything from chips to toothpaste, our addiction to the oil is destroying rainforests. But oily microbes may finally offer a sustainable alternative. However, an alternative to palm oil may ...

Palm oil is a versatile vegetable oil that's ubiquitous in cosmetics and personal care products as well as packaged foods, cleaning products, and even biofuel. Making up a third of the global oil ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Indian demand for palm oil is set to rebound this year as prices have come down, analysts said on Monday, although competition from Chinese soyoil, an alternative oil, ...

Augustine Ong laments Malaysia’s cautious approach to commercialisation despite helping pioneer the technology over four decades ago.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Malaysia's palm oil producers are racing to adjust to an acute shortage of workers due to the coronavirus and sharply higher costs of recruitment as they make changes ...

For thousands of years, the oil palm - indigenous to West Africa – has had an intimate relationship with people. An explosive expansion of oil palm groves throughout western and central Africa in the ...