New Straits Times: Sarawak will continue to open up more land for oil palm plantations, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said here yesterday. He said this would not go against the prime minister’s directive on the clearing of land for oil palm plantation as it did not apply to the state. Taib said land earmarked for new oil palm plantations in the state were not permanent forest reserves but land targeted for agriculture since the 1950s. He said the state had taken steps to …