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WASHINGTON (AA): A U.S. official on Tuesday expressed concerns about Myanmar polls where hundreds of thousands of Muslims were barred from voting and running in the elections. “We have raised our concerns about the removal of voting rights from individuals previously afforded the right to vote, regardless of religion or ethnicity,” said State Department spokesman Mark Toner. […]

10th Nov 2015

Myanmar: EU officials hail elections, want larger Muslim role

By Joshua Carroll YANGON (AA): A team of European Union officials has hailed the Myanmar election process as going better than expected, but underlined that future polls could be improved by including more female and Muslim candidates. While Chief Observer Alexander Graf Lambsdorff told international media gathered at a press conference in Yangon on Tuesday that the poll was well […]

9th Nov 2015

Myanmar: Opposition confident of election victory

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): Senior officials in Myanmar’s opposition National League for Democracy were confident Monday of victory in a historic general election as unofficial results suggested huge gains for the party. Spokesperson Win Htein said the party has won 70 percent of the votes counted so far, though official results will not […]

5th Nov 2015

Myanmar: Fears remain over exclusions days before vote

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): With just three days to go before voters take to the polls in Myanmar, concerns continue to be raised about barriers to participation. When election officials released the final list of candidates to stand in the Nov. 8 vote more than a hundred candidates — including many Muslims — were excluded, underlining a […]

3rd Nov 2015

Rohingya Council calls for Rohingya ‘genocide’ inquiry

By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun ANKARA (AA): The European Rohingya Council has underlined its support for a report that claims that Myanmar’s government, army and police are responsible for genocide against the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority, and has reiterated its call for an investigation by the United Nations. The analysis — released last week by the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale […]

26th Oct 2015

Indonesia: Fire kills 17 at Indonesian karaoke bar

By Ainur Rohmah JAKARTA (AA): A fire at an Indonesian karaoke bar has left 17 people dead and 71 injured in northern Manado City. Detik.com also reported that the crowded venue had only one accessible door toward which people rushed in a panic as the three-story Inul Vista burst into flames early Sunday morning. […]

25th Oct 2015

Indonesia fires continue to wreak havoc 10 killed

By Ainur Rohmah JAKARTA (AA): Smoke from forest fires in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo that has been causing havoc across Southeast Asia for more than three months has now killed at least 10 people locally. National Disaster Management Agency spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a statement Saturday that some victims had died fighting the fires, while others […]

20th Oct 2015

Indonesia: Forest fire kills 7 hikers on mountain

By Ainur Rohmah JAKARTA, (AA): Seven climbers have been killed in a forest fire that hit the slopes of Mount Lawu in Indonesia’s Java island, leaving two other with serious burns. Johanson Ronald Simamora, Magetan Regency police chief, told Anadolu Agency on Monday, “until now, the death toll has reached seven climbers. They are […]

18th Oct 2015

Myanmar: Suu Kyi warns against race, religious divisions

YANGON (AA): Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on voters Saturday not to be influenced by divisions over race and religion during her first visit to conflict-stricken Rakhine state in 15 years. However, she her and other parties have refused to run Muslim candidates for the election and have refused to accept Rohingya […]

15th Oct 2015

Cambodia PM warns Muslims of danger of return to past

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH (AA): Cambodia’s leader has warned the country’s Muslim population of a dangerous return to the past if they don’t vote for his political party, in what has been seen as a very early move to court the Cham vote as he prepares for elections. The Facebook post is the second time this month that Prime Minister Hun Sen has evoked the purges of […]

5th Oct 2015

Thailand: 3 shot dead in Muslim majority south

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): Three people have been shot dead by suspected insurgents in Thailand’s Muslim south, an official confirmed Sunday. An official from the army’s Internal Security Operations Command, who requested anonymity due to ongoing investigations, told Anadolu Agency that the shootings left two soldiers and the father of a suspected insurgent dead. […]

3rd Oct 2015

Indonesia searches for missing small passenger plane

By Ainur Rohmah JAKARTA (AA): Indonesian rescue teams continued to search Saturday for a small passenger plane that went missing with 10 people on board, focusing on a mountainous area in eastern Sulawesi island. Brig. Gen. Ivan Ahmad Riski, Search and Rescue Agency operations director, told Anadolu Agency that 125 personnel were deployed to […]

30th Sep 2015

Cambodia: Muslim says Khmer Rouge threat forced her to deny Islam

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH (AA): A Cham Muslim woman who took the stand at the Khmer Rouge tribunal Tuesday used her impact statement to describe the wide-ranging suffering inflicted upon her and other Muslims under Pol Pot’s dystopian regime. No Sates described the way her father and relatives were rounded up, taken away and murdered. “Then it was […]

28th Sep 2015

Myanmar: Doubts mount about country’s election as Muslims excluded

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): Myanmar election officials have released the final list of candidates to stand in a highly anticipated general election on Nov. 8. However, more than a hundred including many Muslims were controversially excluded from the list released this week, underlining a series of problems that threaten to damage the poll’s […]

26th Sep 2015

Myanmar: Handful of Muslim candidates win appeal to run in election

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): Myanmar’s election commission has made a partial U-turn on its decision to bar dozens of Muslim candidates from a Nov. 8 ballot following pressure from several foreign governments, local media reported Friday. Eleven of the more than 100 candidates rejected following a vetting process earlier this month have had […]

19th Sep 2015

Myanmar: Muslim first to be charged under new religious laws

By Joshua Carroll YANGON, (AA): A Myanmar Muslim man faces up to seven years in prison on being the first to be charged under a set of religious laws passed recently after a campaign by ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks, local media reported Friday. Myint Soe Aung, from the southern Ayeyarwaddy division, has been charged under the new monogamy […]

6th Sep 2015

Thailand: Muslim leader shot dead in Pattani

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): A Muslim leader in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south who had survived a previous attack was shot dead Saturday in Pattani province, according to local media. Dormeng Benjaewan, the 76-year-old imam of the Payonok Mosque in Saiburi district, was shot several times by a suspect riding pillion on a motorcycle in front […]

29th Aug 2015

Malaysia: Protesters rally to demand ouster of Malaysian PM

By P Prem Kumar KUALA LUMPUR (AA): Protesters are gathering in the center of Malaysia’s capital for a rally — already declared unlawful — demanding institutional reforms and the ouster of Prime Minister Najib Razak. While the protests organized by electoral reform group Bersih (“clean” in Malay) were set to officially kick off at 2 p.m. […]

18th Aug 2015

Thailand: Tourists among 27 killed by bomb near Hindu shrine

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – A powerful bomb that shook a Hindu sanctuary frequented by tourists in downtown Bangkok on Monday evening killed at least 27 people and injured 117 others, according to figures given by the Thai health ministry. Local media reported that many Chinese tourists were among the injured. The remote controlled device — constructed from five kilos of TNT — […]

18th Aug 2015

Indonesia: All 54 bodies found in plane crash in Papua

By Ainur Rohmah JAKARTA (AA): Indonesian search teams have discovered the bodies of the 54 people on board a passenger plane that crashed in the mountains of eastern Papua. Major General Heronimus Guru, deputy of operations at the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas), said Tuesday “the latest data we received at 12.15 p.m., Basarnas […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.