• In recent years, Muslim food becomes popular in China. With the rising standards of living, the requirement of food safety and taste of the Chinese people is getting higher than before. • With the successful closing of Beijing Olympic Games and the upcoming Shanghai World Expo in 2010, halal food is gaining importance to serve the needs of more Muslim visitors. • In the past three years, the China’s Muslim food sector has experienced fast development. Due to the strong demand in China’s mainland, most of the Chinese Muslim enterprises are now increasing the production scale to tap the growing market share. • In recent years, Chinese Halal food and product industry has sustained a development growth of 10% per year and in 2006, the total Halal food commerce was more than US$ 2.1 billion. Comparing with the international marketing, China’s market share only accounted for 0.1%. • The total value of China’s Halal food exports was less than US$ 100 million. This...

Ukraine organized the “National Week of Food Processing Industry” from September 8 to 11, 2009 with several significant exhibitions held around the country. Among the main fairs are the “INPRODMASH & UPAKOVKA” the International Fair of Equipment, Technologies and Packaging for Food processing Industry and “SWEETS Ukraine” an International Exhibition on Confectionary Industry. INPRODMASH & UPAKOVKA fairs had become the major exhibitions for the food equipment, technologies and packaging industry in Ukraine. “SWEETS Ukraine” was mainly dedicated to readymade food products and ingredients for food processing. The Ukraine food and food processing industry still remains rather attractive particularly for the imports of equipment, raw materials and food processing technology. Malaysian companies can be very competitive in vegetable oils, cocoa powder, coffee and tea, desiccated fruits and sea food products.   Upon entering WTO, Ukraine has to manufacture food...