9/5/13 arabiangazette.com
Saudi to host biggest food, hotel and hospitality event with over 400 companies from 22 countries.
Saudi Arabia’s 18th International event for food, beverages and catering, hotel equipment, supplies and services is to be held from May 19-22, 2013, under the patronage of the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture.
8/5/13 www.newscientist.com
Hamzah Mohd Salleh‘s lab is trying to ensure the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims can stick to their religion’s strict halal rules
8/5/13 www.lutontoday.co.uk
Concerns from Muslim groups have seen halal meat withdrawn from 18 schools in Luton.
Luton Borough Council said it had taken the “precautionary” measure of suspending halal meat and poultry from schools over an issue with certification, after being contacted by the Luton Council of Mosques and Sunni Council of Mosques.
6/5/13 muslimvillage.com
By: Ahmed Kilani & Ali Cabban
SYDNEY – Fresh Poultry, Australia’s only Muslim owned Halal Hand slaughtered poultry producer, has rubbished claims that they have been supplying non Halal chicken. Sydney’s Muslim community was inundated on the weekend with sms and social media posts alleging that Fresh Poultry was deceptively supplying non Halal food.
4/5/13 www.thenational.ae
2/5/13 www.enghunan.gov.cn
1/5/13 www.thenational.ae
London and Dubai are competing for the title of the biggest Islamic finance listing centre in the western world. But their financial firms are also cooperating in ways that a decade ago would have seemed unlikely.
Sheikh Khalifa, President of the UAE, and Queen Elizabeth of Britain are not likely to have discussed a niche subject like Islamic finance when they met yesterday in Windsor Castle. But it is a subject close to the heart of the UAE and United Kingdom’s financial industry. Dubai, in fact, this year launched its boldest challenge yet to London’s lead in Sharia financing.
4/4/13 www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
A Muslim father has called for an investigation into a Keighley nursery he claims let his three-year-old son eat ham and non-halal meat on two separate occasions.
3/4/13 www.thejakartaglobe.com
Kuala Lumpur. Figures from the global halal food industry are gathering in the Malaysian capital to discuss ideas to expand the industry supplying food that complies with Islamic religious law, currently valued at $2.3 trillion annually.
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2/4/13 www.bsr-russia.com
Halal products from Moscow’s Tsaritsyno meat processing plant will be examined in laboratories in Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) following recent reports that pig DNA has been detected in them, says the chief of Russia’s Mufti Council’s International Center for Halal Standardization and Certification.
1/4/13 www.island.lk
By Izeth Hussain
Suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, the term “racism” has come into vogue. I myself have been using it for years, in preference to the term “ethnic” in connection with our famous ethnic problem. But otherwise it has been normally used in Sri Lanka only to allege “Tamil racism”, the assumption behind which is that the Sinhalese of course have never been racist towards the Tamils, or towards anyone else for that matter. But now, in connection with the anti-Muslim hate campaign and the halal problem, – which involve Buddhist monks and a political party that is part of the Government – many including no less than the President have used the term “racism”. There is therefore recognition among the Sinhalese power elite that there could be racists within their own ranks. I see this as a step or even a great leap forward, the beginnings of a possible sea-change, holding out promise for the future.
30/3/13 www.nation.com.pk
BEIJING – Pakistan’s Ambassador to China, Masood Khalid said that the political and strategic relations between Pakistan and China are robust and the leadership of the two countries giving special focus on enhancing and strengthening bilateral economic and commercial cooperation.
30/3/13 www.nst.com.my
KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysia continues to be a regional sourcing hub not only for halal food and beverages but also for halal ingredients in health and services.
27/3/13 www.icenews.is
A Norwegian food safety watchdog have discovered large amounts of pork in food being sold as halal throughout Norway.
27/3/13 en.ria.ru
Pig DNA Found in Halal Meat Plant in Moscow
MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) – Pig DNA has been found in sausages and ham produced at a halal meat processing plant in Moscow, fresh testing results revealed Wednesday, although this does not necessarily mean that the products actually contain pork, a spokesman for the institute that conducted the tests said.
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