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Chinese finishers are increasingly recognising the ability of digital textile printing to offer outsourcing manufacturing hubs increased flexibility and production quality. Last October (2021), Guangzhou-based startup Youbu Information Technology Co announced it collected “tens of millions of RMB” – Chinese Yuan Renminbi (USD1 buys CNY6.35) from angel investors to transform China’s clothing supply chain with digital printing.…

The international growth of media content focused on Muslim cultural and Islamic religious interests is burgeoning, with companies expanding the reach of their output across national borders, developing an increasingly comprehensive ecosystem of programming delivered by broadcasting and internet-based apps.

The opening of the Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) bureau of the Annahar Al Arabi digital news platform in January (2022) is one example of such cross-border growth, highlighting an appetite for regionally-relevant content in the Gulf region.…

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The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked a reassessment of the model of relying on one or two outsourcing locations. It has demonstrated that when there is a major disruption caused by an emergency as serious as a pandemic, shipping and industrial processing can be disrupted.…

Fraud in the global halal food sector is emerging as a widespread problem. A series of scandals have rocked the industry worldwide, and shone a spotlight on the difficulty of eliminating non-halal practices from increasingly large and complicated food supply chains. …

Spain, which in the early Middle Ages was part of Islamic state called Al-Andalus – remembered as a golden age of Spanish tolerance and reason – has finally started to seriously play to win in the global halal market, through tourism and exports.…

Spain has been expanding its halal tourism and food sales, as it leverages its geographical proximity to Muslim countries in north Africa to provide travel and accommodation services.

In the CrescentRating Global Muslim Travel Index 2021, by CrescentRating & Mastercard, Spain climbed six positions to the 16th in the top non-Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) destinations (https://www.crescentrating.com/reports/global-muslim-travel-index-2021.html).…

Halal experts and animal welfare activists around the world are seeking common ground on how to keep and slaughter animals in the most humane ways possible. Halal certification systems that forbid pre-slaughter stunning as haram is becoming an increasingly acute issue for countries with strong animal welfare culture traditions and growing Muslim populations.…

A protracted delay in announcement of a long-awaited government Pakistan Textile Policy 2020-25, despite drafts being debated for more than a year, is causing unrest and disappointment within the country’s textile business community. They say investors are being deterred from sinking much needed money into the country’s textile industry in the absence of any clear sectoral government policy.…

A comprehensive study of 3,650 students from 55 counties worldwide has indicated that the expansion of online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic has not reduced the attraction of moving countries to undertake in-person higher education in foreign universities and colleges.

Indeed, the study, by IDP Connect, part of Australia-based international student recruitment leader IDP Education, showed that 79% of students questioned were only considering overseas on-campus options.…

The food halal market for Portugal, a largely Christian country that was in the early Middle Ages part of the Muslim world, has been expanding, serving a growing local Muslim community and Muslim tourists keen to taste Portuguese food.

Between 711 and 1249, most of Portugal was under Muslim rule, which influenced its language and culture.…