If you can’t afford to travel Business Class in the air perhaps you might like to pay to enjoy the luxury of a First Class lounge while waiting to board your Economy Class flight at the airport. The new commercial Travelers’ Lounge ‘pay-in lounge’ at Hong Kong International Airport is even offering Halal Food for its guests wanting pre-flight pampering.
Thai exporters are being urged to tap into China’s expanding Muslim food market. “China is one of the world’s most eye-catching halal food markets,
as Muslims there total more than 30 million, or 2.3% of China’s
population,” said Srirat Rastapana, director-general of the Export
Promotion Department.
The full implementation of the China-Asean Free Trade Area (CAFTA) from
Jan 1 this year will allow more products from this country to be
marketed in China. Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said there would be zero tariff on 9,000 products.
The link between China and the Middle East is not immediately visible to the distracted Western eye. You have to know both regions intimately, and speak
both Arabic and Mandarin. One of the few to combine these skills is Ben
Simpfendorfer, China economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of The
New Silk Road.
“These are regions with very rich civilisations that both experienced
colonial occupation, and feel that they have fallen. Both peaked around the
same time in the golden years of the 1500s, and now there is this sense of
shared destiny that China and the Middle East are back and rising again
together,” he said at the annual FIKR Arab Thought summit in Kuwait.
At the World Secure Food Chain conference 2-4 December 2009, in Hong
Kong, Al Islami Foods
said that meat obtained from non-stunned animals is healthier and has a
longer shelf life.
And non-Halal and stunned meat is highly questionable, quoting a
research conducted by the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research on
the same subject.
THE Haoyue Halal Meat Company is one of the meat suppliers in the
Sultanate. It will begin its planning beginning 2010 when the 11th of a
five year-plan ends.
The lack of publicity and understanding of
CAEXPO led to a smaller than usual Brunei participation in this year’s
5th China ASEAN Expo (CAEXPO) held in late October. However Nong Rong, Vice Secretary General and Vice Director General
of China Asean Expo Secretariat, has promised that things are about to
change as CAEXPO is looking to increase its efforts to “bridge”
Brunei’s entrepreneurs with Chinese businessmen.
Biomarine Sdn Bhd, a joint venture (JV)
between Bruneian and Chinese companies, will establish a halal
fish-processing facility in the Sultanate once the newly-formed company
has settled in and operations are running smoothly, it was announced
yesterday.
Islamic Finance news – IFN Today, Thursday, 17th May 2012
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