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United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based halal fast-food chain Chicking is planning to expand its geographic footprint with up to 30 new outlets across Canada by 2023.

The company opened its first ChickQueen branch in the multi-cultural city of Mississauga, Ontario, in May 2021, as part of a plan to expand to all major Canadian cities, AK Mansoor, founder and chairman of Chicking, told Salaam Gateway.…

Crime statistics being released by law enforcement agencies worldwide tell an unhappy story – that online fraud is growing fast.  Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, estimates that 80% of reported fraud in the UK in the 2021/2022 reporting year was cyber-enabled (1).…

As the world moves on from the Covid-19 pandemic, the shift to living and working more online is proving permanent, bringing a sustained greater risk of cybercrime, not least ransomware attacks. The risk has been recognised by the US Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 9 proposing mandatory cybersecurity disclosure for public companies, with standardised cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident reporting. …

Transport coatings innovators have been increasingly integrating graphene into their products, as researchers continue to leverage the functionality delivered by a sustainable material whose honeycomb lattice nanostructure offers major durability without adding bulk.

Researchers from Poland’s Gdańsk University of Technology have highlighted graphene’s flexibility and ability to adapt to the “roughness and curvature of the substrate surface” as a boon within paint and coatings design, especially for hard wear and tear uses, such as transport.…

She said: “Here is the FI copy on the Qatargate scandal.  There seems to be new details emerging every few hours.

It is too long but I am going out in 45 minutes and will only have my phone to check emails, so would prefer to file now and have you take a look and perhaps find answers to potential questions in the excess copy. …

It is maybe surprising that maternity support garments (MSGs) are still a niche segment, even though women of childbearing age constitute approximately one-quarter of the populations of developed countries. Indeed, tubular bands made out of cotton and elastane are still commonly used instead of MSGs across the world. …

Higher education institutions are being warned they could be a target for money laundering, with fees being financed by the proceeds of crime, including corruption, which might also buy property, cars and other items for students.

The problem has been highlighted in a series of reports.…

BRITAIN’S halal food market maybe growing, but the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) in January 2020 has been impeding the sale, production and export of such products, and the regulatory headaches may get worse in future.

Speaking to Salaam Gateway, Rizvan Khalid, managing director, of Euro Quality Lambs, a major England-based producer and exporter of halal sheepmeat, said trade red tape imposed since the UK quit the EU has imposed GBP500,000 of annual regulatory costs on his business.…

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.…

Researchers from England’s Lancaster University and Aston University, plus the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, have developed a technique of making textile additives from spent nuclear fuel. They argue the system offers economic and environmental gains regarding the processing of waste, as well as substituting sodium dithionite, which can help form toxic gases.…