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Bandung (Pinmas) —- Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali insists the government should issue halal certification instead of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), based on the legal aspects that may rise as a result. The minister said that an institution under ...

By Lee Hsin-Yin Taipei, March 28 (CNA) Twenty-one restaurants and hotels in Taiwan were given Halal certification on Friday, bringing the total number of facilities of this kind to 50, as part of the country’s effort to attract more Muslim ...

Malaysia should try to penetrate Russia’s Halal food market KUALA LUMPUR — Russia is seeking to build greater business collaboration with both the government and private sector in Malaysia. Russian Deputy Minister of Economic Development Alexey Likhachev said the areas ...

Two Articles on the same topic REUTERS SUMMIT-ASEAN links rising but 2015 integration hard – Philippine finmin By Rosemarie Francisco MANILA, March 24 (Reuters) – Southeast Asia is unlikely to hit a target of integrating its 10 economies by 2015, ...

By Nurul Hanis Izmir – Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 (Bernama) — More halal certified companies should expand their businesses overseas as currently only 700 of the 4,000 are doing it. Halal Industry Development Corp (HDC) Chief Executive Officer, Datuk Seri ...