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Cannabidiol oil, or CBD oil, has steadily become a more in demand commodity supplied by the bio-based oils and fats industry due to rising product usage in food, pharmaceuticals, supplements, nutraceuticals, lotions, shampoos, soaps, bath gels, massage oils and cosmetics.

Product developers stress how CBD products can provide consumers with relief for anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.…

The United Nations Environment Assembly’s (UNEA) planned global pact on plastic may act as a further disruptor and consolidator of efforts to address plastic packaging in the dairy industry. The legally binding agreement, which UN member states agreed would be concluded by 2024, according to a March 2022 announcement, aims to facilitate an end to plastic pollution by addressing the lifecycle of plastic, from design and production to disposal.…

Tunisian students who fled Ukrainian universities following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia have found themselves in academic limbo, struggling to receive recognition for their completed studies, at home or in other countries.

When Russian tanks and missiles violated Ukraine sovereignty, Tunisian news media was filled with patriotic images of Tunisia’s President Kais Saied ordering an airbridge rescue mission, followed by sentimental images of students arriving back in Tunis, cradling beloved pet cats as parents rushed to hug their children.…

Sharia-compliant financial technology (fintech) is poised for explosive growth across both Islamic and western jurisdictions. 

In part this reflects growth in Islamic finance: Refinitiv, an American-British global provider of financial market data owned by the London Stock Exchange (LSE), predicts the value of money transacted through the Islamic finance sector will reach USD4.9 trillion by 2025. …

Marketers for the planned Saudi Arabia megacity of Neom, a key plank of the kingdom’s Vision 2030 strategy of economic growth and diversity, will highlight it site’s ancient religious heritage and develop adventure tourism to attract five million international tourists-a-year (by 2030).…

The global ‘cultured’ artificially-produced meat market may be set to soar amid greater environment-friendly government policies worldwide, investment and the growth in green consumerism, but questions remain if this novel food can be recognised as halal.

Cultured meat (also known as lab-grown or cultivated meat) is typically produced by harvesting cells from a living animal and cultivating them outside the animal’s body using tissue engineering and cellular agriculture to form cuts of meat.…

Cooperation with the paint and coatings sector is enabling innovators within the solar power technology industry to deliver on its promise to be a key means to decarbonise the global economy. Offering a key alternative to dealing with surging fossil fuel energy prices amidst Russia’s bloody and destructive invasion of Ukraine, paint and coatings companies are increasingly optimising solar generation.…

Luxury knitwear and lingerie producers in the European Union (EU) have been banned from selling and supplying goods worth more than EUR300-a-piece to Russia, as the country’s military continues its invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions, imposed by the EU Council of Ministers bans even indirect sales via third parties to individual Russian consumers, traders and companies.…

While the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a shadow of its former self in the Middle East, it has spawned global affiliates and is still very much in business, posing ongoing terrorist financing threats.

At the peak of its power as a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in 2015, ISIS controlled around a third of Syria’s territory and 40%of Iraq, with some 7.7 million people under its rule.…

With financial fraud booming, the market for forensic accounting – uncovering financial crime through the study of accounting data, bank records and associated company data – is also growing fast.

A report from US and UK-based Market Research Future (MRFR) issued last October (2021) predicted that the global forensic accounting market would be worth annual receipts of USD8.85 billion by 2025, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.2%.…