At a meeting with the Tunisian ambassador to Pakistan business leaders pledged to boost bilateral trade between the two countries .

The first pots of honey by Brazilian company Novo Mel that are turned to the Arab market should arrive in organic product supermarkets in Dubai in coming months .

Many Dutch prisons now serve only Halal meat to the inmates .

The Dubai municipality has launched an intensive campaign to crack down on producers and distributors who sell haram products .

Thailand and Bahrain will  jointly organise an exhibition of halal food products .

AuGrid Global Holdings Corporation announced yesterday that its shareholders and management rejected the merger with Silver Star Capital Holdings, Inc .

Bahrain has launched a number if initiatives to develop it food sector .

Taiwan is encouraging its food exporters to tap the Muslim world's huge market for halal food, but the response has been lukewarm so far as companies do not yet see a profit in producing food that complies with Islamic law, the DPA news agency reported .

In the light of ongoing concerns about Halal authenticity of food products in Pakistan and elsewhere an international seminar is being organized by the Pakistan Society of Food Scientists and Technologists and the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America in Lahore on June 29, 2009 at the auditorium of the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research .

Indonesia has asked New Zealand to certify its meat products exported to Indonesia with Halal certification, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Hasan Wirayuda as saying here on Thursday .