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Thailand’s Halal Spa Industry Gains with a New Learning Center

Thailand is opening a new learning center located at the Prince of Songkhla University (PSU), Pattani Campus, which offers training to therapists and entrepreneurs of halal spa treatments and develops guidelines for businesses, including the use of halal-compliant products and equipment and the provision of gender-segregated facilities. The university, which has been collaborating with the Southern

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WhatsApp will soon let you stay logged in to two accounts at once

After WhatsApp enabled the companion mode, which is to make a WhatsApp account to be connected to four other devices in April 2023, which helps users stay connected with their WhatsApp account on all their devices without logging out, it will now release another update that will let its users use multiple accounts that could

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Google’s AI Bard Made a Mistake in Reporting About Ceasefire in Israel

Google’s AI Bard is still facing the same issue, that is, giving out false information that sometimes could be racist and is often perceived as not reliable, ever since its initial release on March 21, 2023 and the stable release on September 27, 2023. Before the stable release, it had its biggest update to give

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Filipino Muslim Agency to Boost Halal Agro-Industry

The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) has put forward a comprehensive plan to build agro-industrial hubs specifically for halal products across the country, which is a big step toward growing the halal business in the Philippines. This ambitious project aims to foster the development of halal products for both internal consumption and international export

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Major International Airlines Cancel Flights to Israel

Last Saturday, any leading international airlines cancelled their flights from in and out of Israel’s capital, Tel Aviv, due to the conflict with Hamas and rising attacks on Gaza. About 16% of flights were cancelled and 23% were delayed to Ben Gurion International Airport, Israel’s international hub, located outside Tel Aviv. As of Sunday, about

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Fahmi Fadzil: Malaysia will look into Indonesia’s move to ban TikTok Shop

Last week, on Wednesday, October 4, 2023, TikTok Indonesia decided to officially end transactions on its e-commerce marketplace, TikTok Shop. Across Southeast Asia, the platform has more than 325 million people come to TikTok every month and 15 million businesses use the platform, according to Shou Zi, the CEO of TikTok. He emphasized that more

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Is South Korea failing women in the workplace? Just look at Hyundai Motor

During July this year, Hyundai has recently directly hired female factory workers in South Korea for the first time since its founding in 1967, recruiting six women technicians, according to the Korea Metal Workers’ Union. When the job posting was posted on their website, unions and activists encouraged Hyundai to increase the number of women

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