Asia

By: Keisuke Iwata, Japan Times Local-level authorities are stepping up efforts to attract Muslim tourists to their holiday spots as Japan becomes a prime destination for the growing middle-class population of Southeast Asia. Their efforts center on promoting local businesses’ ...

By A Z M Anas, Financial Express Bangladeshi-Japanese Badal Chaklader, originally from Bikrampur, is obsessed with ‘halal’. And the 46-year-old food purveyor is profiting from it in a nation, where Islam is not a dominant faith. The man, who moved ...

By Shafaat Shahbandari, Gulf News Eye on Muslim tourists as Japan highlights Mosques, Halal food Dubai: Fresh off celebrating it’s own National Day on Thursday, Japan is going all out to woo Muslim tourists as it issues special guide of ...

KUALA Lumpur —The Halal International Chamber of Commerce and Industries of the Philippines Inc. (HICCIP) has unveiled plans to put up a billion-peso halal hub in Mindanao. Halal Chamber President and Chief Executive Officer Ustadz Alexander Sultan said the chamber has ...

Nestlé has expanded a plant in Turkey’s northwestern province of Karacabey in Bursa to produce Maggi bouillon products for the North African and the Middle Eastern markets, with a focus on Saudi Arabia. The company has invested 22 million Turkish ...