PIONEER Bio Industries Corp Sdn Bhd will invest RM1.4 billion to build a biofuel plant in Perak that can produce ethanol from the sap of the nipah palm tree. The facility in Taiping is expected to be operational by late 2008 or early 2009.

Sep. 5--The mountains, beaches and summer's last long weekend beckoned travelers throughout the Carolinas, despite gas shortages spawned by Hurricane Katrina.