Tan Kim Tun turns his passion for working the land into a successful oil palm seedling business. He has always been a man of the soil. With the sun burning the nape of his neck, Tan Kim Tun goes ...

IN 1905, a young Frenchman named Henri Fauconnier arrived in Malaya in search of opportunities for fortune. Two years later, in 1907, Fauconnier planted some oil palm seeds for its oil at the ...

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While they have a litany of complaints, few see other alternatives. Meanwhile oil palm firms are making a fortune. By Curran's calculations, some firms in West Kalimantan are seeing a 26 percent ...