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IOI Corp., Malaysia’s second-biggest palm oil planter by market value, said second-quarter profit gained 11 percent on higher crude palm oil prices.
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Will we see the day when all products carry environmental labels with data on carbon emissions and other impacts? Recent news tells us a definitive...maybe. Within a couple days of each other, GM announced new eco-labels for some Chevy models, while U.K. mega-retailer Tesco pulled back from an important 4-year experiment in carbon labeling.
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Google Inc.’s new privacy policy was criticized by the National Association of Attorneys General as failing to give consumers choices about pooling their data.
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India allowed airlines to directly import jet fuel to help cut operating costs by saving as much as 30 percent in local taxes.
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Google Inc.’s planned changes to its privacy policy are deceptive, violate a settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and should be stopped, an advocacy group said in a federal complaint.
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U.S. states looking to balance budgets by cutting mental-health facilities and Medicaid payments risk increasing health-care costs by pushing psychiatric patients into emergency rooms.
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Pacific Investment Management Co. is quitting the American Securitization Forum after the trade group declined to issue a statement about investors’ views on the nationwide foreclosure settlement this month by five banks, two people with knowledge of the matter said.
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Relying on information from Japanese officials, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko told Congress last year that a spent-fuel pool at Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant was dry. It wasn’t true.
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Royal Dutch Shell Plc said Malcolm Brinded, a 37-year veteran at the company, will step down as exploration and production director and be replaced by Andrew Brown, currently Shell’s Qatar chairman.
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Memory-chip designer Rambus Inc.’s conduct before an industry board won’t be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court, clearing an obstacle in the company’s decade-long pursuit of patent royalties from semiconductor makers.
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