He gave it up to set up a small trading company and later a sugar and palm-oil venture with Malaysian tycoon Robert Kuok.

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"Yogurt" pretzels whose dominant ingredients are sugar and palm oil.

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He also has a 700, 000-hectare forest concession in Kalimantan, where he wants to plant palm sugar, and other landholdings in Papua.

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Because Vietnamese food is generally light, with most dressings and sauces based on palm sugar and lime, Dickson often recommends a dry Riesling to accompany the delicate flavours.

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Profit gained in part on lower costs for sugar, potato starch and palm oil compared with a year earlier.

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Emerging occasionally from the brush are wallabies, echidnas, possums and palm-sized sugar gliders.

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The deep-fried parcels with beef, prawns or palm hearts, doused with chili sauce and washed down with a glass of sugar cane juice, hit the spot.

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