KUALA LUMPUR--After five years of often back-breaking work on a Malaysian palm oil plantation, Bangladeshi national Babul told his employer this month he was ready to call it quits. The plantation ...

The palm-oil plantations of Malaysia have become magnets for refugees from Bangladesh and Myanmar. Many have complained of onerous working conditions and few legal protections. Photo: Syed Zain Al ...

Responding to the debate over the demand for palm oil and its impact on indigenous people’s rights, wildlife habitats and environmental pollution, several non-governmental organisations in Malaysia ...

Photograph by PASCAL MAITRE Indonesia and Malaysia are now the epicenter of palm oil, but the oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is not native to Asia. It comes from West and central Africa ...

Oil palm plantations are known for environmental harms such as biodiversity loss Study suggests establishing tree islands within large oil palm ...