Since the launch of fresh meat business in the UAE last year, the compelling demand for real halal and fresh meat prompted Al Islami to accelerate the setting up of dedicated meat shops across the UAE and the other countries of the GCC region .

The government is determined to increase the country’s exports up to 25 per cent during the next three years under its Trade Policy Framework, Secretary Commerce Suleman Ghani said on Tuesday .

Malaysia's Halal Industry Development Corp .

Canada's federal government has approved funding to a Saskatchewan-based bison producers' cooperative to expand their meat markets into the Middle East, the Grainews .

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) said the use of swine-enzyme-containing meningitis vaccine should be banned, and only to be allowed for those doing an obligatory haj pilgrimage .

Pakistan's Federal Minister for Commerce, Makhdoom Amin Fahim will open the launching ceremony Global Halal Expo and Halal Congress 2010 at a local hotel on July 27, 2009, the News reported .

A leading Halal meat supplier has hit out at the appointment of Lord Rooker to the chair of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) as “jobs for the boys”, and called for Muslim representation within quangos, the Meat News reported .