[KUALA LUMPUR] Palm oil plantations in Malaysia will have to stop operations for the next two weeks to comply with government orders to shut non-essential businesses to contain the spread of the coronavirus, a producer group said on Wednesday.

Malaysia today extended a countrywide lockdown by two weeks to 14 April to combat the spread of the coronavirus, a move expected to keep wood pellet factories closed for nearly a month. The restrictions on movement are also making it more difficult for many palm kernel shells (PKS) suppliers to operate. The Malaysian state government of […]

Japan’sNomura Holdings Inc. has injected $25 million in Singaporean recycling technology firm Blue Planet Environmental Solutions Pte. Ltd. Blue Planet will use the investment from the major Japanese securities firm to improve its products and services for sustainable waste management, which will help sustainable growth in Asia, according to a Blue Planet statement released on Tuesday.

A $433 million contract to build a biosolid treatment facility for the Tuas Water Reclamation Plant (WRP) has been awarded to Sembcorp Design and Construction (SDC). National water agency PUB said in a statement yesterday that SDC will construct Tuas WRP’s energy-efficient biosolids building, digesters and greasy waste receiving facility.

Indonesia’s palm oil exports to China have plummeted by half in volume amid global uncertainties, an industry source has said. The Indonesian Palm Oil Producers Association (GAPKI) said in a statement on Tuesday that China’s export volume fell by 381,000 tons or 57 percent. This contributed to the sharp drop in the country’s total palm oil […]

[KUALA LUMPUR] Two Malaysia palm oil grower groups on Tuesday asked the government of Sabah, the country’s biggest palm producing state, to reconsider the extension of an order suspending palm operations as part of coronavirus containment efforts.

NEWS from Kuningan, Jakarta, on Friday, March 6, came as a shock to Yudi Prabangkara. That weekend, Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Deputy Chair Nurul Ghufron mentioned Presidential Regulation No. 35/2018, which was initiated by the coordinating ministry for maritime affairs and investment, where Yudi is assistant deputy for the infrastructure, mining, and energy division.

Singapore’s National Environment Agency has presented a Letter of Acceptance for the development of a waste-to-power plant and a materials recovery facility at the country’s new Tuas Nexus IWMF Phase 1. The Letter of Acceptance was issued to a Keppel-led consortium for the project’s EPC contract, which is worth more than $1.5 billion. The Integrated Waste Management Facility […]

Embassy of Finland published an official statement regarding the latest project to support Thang Long Energy Joint Stock Company with EUR 110 000 to study the Environmental and Social Impacts of large-scale Waste-to-Energy Plant in Bac Ninh Province, Vietnam. The Fund for Local Cooperation (FLC) Application and Funding was approved after detailed consultations and several rounds […]

JAKARTA: Indonesia’s ministry of economic affairs is set to discuss how the country will continue its ambitious biodiesel programme, a ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday. The economic affairs ministry will meeting on Wednesday to decide the government’s next moves to ensure the continuity of a mandate which requires biodiesel to have 30 per cent bio-content (B30) made […]