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By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – Twelve years after her husband was forced into a waiting car, never to be seen again, a newly elected Muslim member of Thailand’s human rights commission says she has made the fight against such enforced disappearances a priority. “A law on enforced disappearance has been drafted two years ago, […]

23rd Dec 2015

Thailand: Blast injures 7 Thai soldiers in Patani

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA) – Seven Thai soldiers have been injured in an overnight bomb attack in an insurgency-plagued province in the Muslim south, local media reported Wednesday. Seven soldiers were injured after a bomb planted near their base in Narathiwat went off while they were returning from a patrol just after midnight, […]

13th Dec 2015

Thailand: Muslim Thai officer killed in blast at cemetery

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): A Thai army officer was killed and his father seriously wounded Sunday morning when a bomb went off at a cemetery in the country’s insurgency-plagued Muslim south. A police official in Yala province who requested anonymity citing ongoing investigations told Anadolu Agency that that Said Chedoma “was paying respect […]

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. […]

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 — […]

6th Aug 2015

Thailand: Blast kills 1 Thai marine, injures 4 others in south

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): One Thai marine was killed and four others injured in a bombing Thursday morning in the insurgency-plagued south, an official confirmed. A Narathiwat provincial police officer told Anadolu Agency that the improvised explosive device was planted along a highway route in front of a mosque by suspected insurgents who […]

1st Aug 2015

Thailand: Attack leaves 18 injured in Muslim south

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): Investigations are continuing into a violent attack by separatist insurgents in Thailand’s south that left almost 20 people injured, an official confirmed Saturday. Internal Security Operations Command spokesman Colonel Banphot Phunphien told Anadolu Agency that 18 people were injured in the incident but none face life-threatening injuries. The injuries occurred after insurgents — thought to be […]

9th Jul 2015

Thailand: 90 Uighur Muslims ‘sent back’ to China

[People walk at the streets of Kashgar city, in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region on July 08, 2015. Mahmut Atanur/Anadolu Agency] By CS Thana and Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): The Thai government confirmed Thursday that it had deported 90 Uighur migrants back to China. Government spokesman Weerachon Sukondhapatipak confirmed to Anadolu Agency by phone that the Uighur […]

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Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

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 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.