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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MALAYSIAN palm oil production is expected to reach a record high of 13.4 million tonnes in 2003-04 (from October-September), US officials have predicted, up from 13.2 million tonnes last year.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN government agencies have decided to aggressively push the export of speciality halal meats to Asia and the Middle East. They want to tap the rapidly growing middle-class of consumers in the regions. Plans to use Malaysia as a halal processing centre for Australian exports to Islamic countries are already well advanced.…

BY PHILIP FINE

HONG Kong, China, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Korea are among 18 countries restricting US poultry imports, after four American states – Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Texas – discovered cases of a new variant of bird flu.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A SOUTH Asia regional meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has agreed to set up a Central Reporting Agency (CRA), which would evaluate ground and airborne ADS/CPDLC systems performance in an operational trial for the Bay of Bengal area.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
MALAYSIA’S Senai Airport Terminal Services (SATS) is to spend Ringgit 1 billion (US$0.26 billion) over the next five years to turn its terminal into a logistics hub, exploiting its proximity to Singapore. SATS director Mohamad Sidik Shaik Osman has wants to raise 70-80 per cent from banks by this summer.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
PALM oil exports from Malaysia are falling says consultant Palmis Management. It estimated Malaysia’s November palm oil exports at 990,000 tonnes, down 17 per cent from October. Palmis also forecast stocks would fall to 685,000 tonnes in February.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY MARK ROWE
INDONESIAN parliamentarians have called for ban on sugar imports until February to stabilise the tumbling domestic price of the commodity. Sugarcane farmers have complained about low-cost sugar imports from Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CONSORTIUM of major gas players has received a significant US$372 million loan from the European Investment Bank to construct the first phase of a new major liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Idku, Egypt, which will be able to export supplies to Europe from nearby Alexandria.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) meeting has supported a plan to boost civil airliner access to Afghanistan airspace, offering new choices for long-haul flights from southern and east Asia to Europe. ICAO’s coordination meeting on reduced vertical separation (RVSM) implementation for the Bay of Bengal and India backed an International Air Transport Association (IATA) proposed traffic orientation scheme for commercial flights crossing the Kabul FIR.…