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By Ainur Rohmah TUBAN, (AA): A strong earthquake shook the north of Indonesia’s Sumatra island Wednesday morning, killing at least 52 people and causing dozens of buildings to collapse. National Disaster Management Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho told a televised press conference that in addition to the 52 fatalities in Aceh province, there are […]

1st Dec 2016

Thailand: Soldier killed, 3 injured in bomb attack in south

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): One soldier was killed and three others were injured Wednesday in an early morning explosion in Thailand’s Muslim majority south. The incident was the latest in a series of violent attacks in the insurgency-plagued region, although there has been a marked decrease in the level of violence in the […]

25th Nov 2016

UK: UN urged to press Myanmar over Rohingya crackdown

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, Myanmar (AA): A United Kingdom-based Rohingya organization has called on the United Nations and international community for urgent action in pressing Myanmar’s government to lift all restrictions on humanitarian aid in western Rakhine State. Maungdaw Township in the troubled state’s north has been under military lockdown since Oct. 9 […]

23rd Nov 2016

UK group delivers Rohingya petition to Myanmar embassy

LONDON (AA): A U.K.-based pressure group has delivered a thousands-strong petition to Myanmar’s London embassy calling on the country’s government to confront the crisis plaguing the Rohingya minority. Burma Campaign U.K. said Tuesday it delivered 3,164 signatures on a petition calling on Myanmar’s NLD-led government to tackle hate speech, lift humanitarian aid restrictions, repeal a […]

17th Nov 2016

Myanmar again urged to allow Rakhine rights abuse probe

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): An international rights group called on Myanmar’s government Thursday to immediately allow independent monitors and journalists to verify reports of mass destruction and other rights abuses in western Rakhine State. The army-run Myawaddy newspaper has claimed that mass arson attacks on Rohingya villages in a northern area of […]

16th Nov 2016

Myanmar: US urges Govt to prevent violence in Rakhine; 70 Rohingya Muslims killed

By Esra Kaymak Avci WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S. on Tuesday urged the government of Myanmar to do more to stem violence in western Rakhine state where nearly 70 Rohingya Muslims have been killed by security forces in the past week. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said a U.S. delegation currently holding talks in Myanmar […]

14th Nov 2016

Myanmar reports more fatal clashes in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar’s military has killed at least 28 suspected attackers during fresh fighting in troubled Rakhine State, according to official media Monday. Since last month’s fatal attacks on police, dozens of people — including soldiers and suspected attackers (among them two women) — have been killed, or have died, […]

13th Nov 2016

Indonesia: Blast outside church injures 4

By Ainur Rohmah TUBAN, (AA): Indonesian police have arrested a suspect following an explosion outside a church in East Kalimantan province that left four children injured. The police chief of provincial capital Samarinda told Anadolu Agency that they are questioning a 32-year-old man — identified by his initial J — on suspicion that he […]

28th Oct 2016

Myanmar: Int’l Rohingya Muslim groups need urgent help in Rakhine

By Satuk Bugra Kutlugun ANKARA (AA) – Rohingya advocacy groups worldwide are calling for an international push to allow humanitarian aid to get through to western Rakhine State and stem what they refer to as the mass starvation of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim community. For almost one month, areas of the state have been under […]

26th Oct 2016

Myanmar urged to probe new rights violations in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): United Nations human rights experts have called on Myanmar to address growing reports of violations in western Rakhine State after areas housing the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority were torched following fatal attacks on police station outposts. In the more than two weeks since armed individuals killed nine officers […]

20th Oct 2016

Myanmar military detains 11 more for Rakhine attacks

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A further 11 people have been arrested in military clearance operations in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State following raids on police outposts earlier this month in which nine officers died. Two of those held subsequently died in detention Wednesday, although they are understood to have been in poor health […]

18th Oct 2016

Malaysia on alert as Mosul offensive in Iraq may bring home Daesh fighters

By P Prem Kumar KUALA LUMPUR (AA) – Malaysia has been placed on its highest security setting after intelligence reports suggested thousands of Daesh members may try and return home as a military operation closes in on Mosul — the last Daesh stronghold in northern Iraq. Iraqi forces began advancing on the city early […]

16th Oct 2016

Thailand: Arrests of 48 students from south worry Thai Muslims

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): Thai Muslim organizations have denounced a series of recent “arbitrary arrests” by Bangkok police of youths from the country’s insurgency-plagued south, after information emerged earlier this month of an alleged bomb plot, local media reported Sunday. The president of the Patani Students’ Federation, which represents young Thai Muslims of […]

15th Oct 2016

Myanmar Muslims condemn fatal attacks in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Muslims in Myanmar have condemned recent fatal attacks on police station outposts in troubled western Rakhine State which the government has blamed on a little-known extremist group. About 40 people — including nine police, four soldiers and 26 suspected attackers — were killed following attacks on three police […]

11th Oct 2016

Myanmar: 3 more die in latest Rakhine violence, incl Muslims

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Police have tightened security in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State after three people were killed in a clash Monday as troops hunted for a group who stormed police border points Sunday killing nine police officers. Global Rohingya advocacy groups have claimed that following the attacks more than ten “innocent” […]

24th Sep 2016

Thailand: 3 security officials killed by bomb in the south

By Max Constant and CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): A remote-controlled bomb killed three security officials Friday in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued majority Muslim south. Police captain Pongsak Khaonawon, deputy-chief investigator at Krongpinang police station in Yala province, told Anadolu Agency, “the bomb was buried under a road” in the district. “It exploded exactly when a police […]

21st Sep 2016

Myanmar: Illegal mosques to be demolished in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A senior government official in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine State has pledged to tear down all illegally constructed buildings including mosques and Muslim religious schools, according to a report Wednesday. More than 3,000 structures including 12 mosques and 35 madrasas (religious schools) built without permission from local authorities in […]

19th Sep 2016

Thailand: 18 killed in Thai Muslims tourist boat sinking

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): The death toll from a boat sinking during an annual ceremony at a mosque in central Thailand has risen to 18 with 10 others still missing and 46 injured, local media reported Monday. Authorities believe the vessel on the Chao Phraya River was carrying more than 150 Thai-Muslims returning […]

14th Sep 2016

Myanmar Muslims combat nationalist pressure on Eid

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Thousands of Muslims have defied pressure from hardline Buddhist monks to crowd a muddy cemetery in Myanmar’s commercial capital to await the ritual slaughter of Eid al-Adha livestock. Unlike most Muslim countries, Eid al-Adha starts officially in Myanmar on Tuesday. Many participants had braved the heavy rains of […]

24th Aug 2016

Thailand: Car bomb kills 1, injures 29 in Thai Muslim south

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): A powerful car bomb has left one person dead and 29 others injured in front of a hotel in Thailand’s majority Muslim far South, less than two weeks after a series of explosions rocked upper regions of the southern peninsula. An investigator at the Pattani province police station told […]

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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.