Retail companies, including French retail giant Carrefour, will be required to provide reports on merger and takeover plans to avoid unfair business practices and to help protect small suppliers in the sector.

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Achmad Syafriel, AnalystCrude palm oil (CPO) price movements have been nothing short of a roller-coaster ride. From a mid-June 2006 price of around US$400 per ton, it shot up 350 percent to $1,400 per ton in Rotterdam before plunging 37 percent to the current level.

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Alfian, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government may delay paying refunds owed to oil and gas contractors for exploration work and investment costs next year to help sustain the state budget, a minister says.

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