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By Max Constant and CS Thana BANGKOK (AA): Thai police said Friday that a series of bomb blasts that killed at least four people and injured around 35 were not related to terrorism. In the past, Thai governments have avoided use of the term “terrorism” for fear of the effect it may have on […]

3rd Jul 2016

Myanmar: Knife-wielding mob destroys mosque in N Myanmar

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A riotous mob has set fire to a mosque in Myanmar’s north and razed it to the ground after local Muslims refuse to comply with a nationalist group’s demolition order. The incident was the second such attack in the past month, leading to calls from human rights groups […]

24th Jun 2016

Indonesia: More than 60 dead in floods, landslides

By Ainur Rohmah TUBAN, (AA): An Indonesian official confirmed Friday that more than 60 people have been killed and thousands displaced in floods and landslides in the Indonesian islands of Java and Sulawesi over the past week. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, national disaster management agency spokesman, told Anadolu Agency that storms that began sweeping through […]

24th Jun 2016

Myanmar: Muslim injured in attack on mosque by Buddhists

By Kyaw Ye Lynn WAW, (AA): A Muslim man has been injured after a Buddhist mob destroyed a mosque in Myanmar’s south-central Bago region following an argument over the construction of a new religious school. Htay Khaing, an officer-in-charge at the police station in Waw Township, told Anadolu Agency on Friday, “some angry villagers […]

21st Jun 2016

Myanmar: Suu Kyi, UN human rights envoy discuss Rakhine Muslims

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and a United Nations human rights envoy, Yanghee Lee, have discussed how to address the situation in the country’s troubled Rakhine State, state media reported Tuesday. During a meeting in political capital Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, Lee and Suu Kyi […]

20th Jun 2016

Indonesia: 35 dead after floods, landslides in Central Java

By Ainur Rohmah TUBAN, (AA): Floods and landslides have left at least 35 people dead and 25 missing in Indonesia’s central Java province. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for the national disaster management agency, told Anadolu Agency on Sunday that 16 districts and cities in Central Java had been affected, leaving hundreds of houses damaged […]

9th Jun 2016

Cambodia: Muslims among many ‘smashed’ by Khmer Rouge

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH, (AA): Kaing Guek Eav, chairman of the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious prison, told the Khmer Rouge tribunal Wednesday of a group of Muslims who were “smashed” at the site in the Cambodian capital in the 1970s. The 73-year-old jailer, better known by his alias Duch, is serving life in […]

8th Jun 2016

Thailand: Village chief, assistant killed in Muslim south

By CS Thana BANGKOK (AA) – A village chief and his assistant have been killed in Thailand’s Muslim south in an attack by suspected insurgents in troubled Narathiwat province. An army captain who requested anonymity citing ongoing investigations told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that Anuwa Sulong, the chief of Bango Dudong village, and his […]

23rd May 2016

Myanmar: Suu Kyi urges for space to address ‘Rohingya’ issue

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has urged the international community to give her administration “enough space” to solve the issue of Rohingya Muslims in western Rakhine State. The statement came Sunday, after a meeting with U.S secretary of state John Kerry in Nay Pyi Taw, which […]

14th May 2016

Myanmar monks & nationalists march to ban ‘Rohingya’

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA):- Several hundred nationalists have taken to the streets of Myanmar’s second largest city to call on the government to declare within three days that there is no Rohingya ethnicity in the country. Protesters at the unauthorized Mandalay demonstration — attended by monks and nationalist activists — demanded that […]

8th May 2016

Malaysia’s ruling party sails home in crucial vote

By P Prem Kumar KUALA LUMPUR (AA): Malaysia Premier Najib Razak’s Barisan Nasional (BN) party has won 72 of the 82 seats up for grabs in a state election in Sarawak — seen as a crucial test of the prime minister’s popularity following several scandals. Opposition parties faired poorly, with the Anwar Ibrahim-led People’s […]

3rd May 2016

Myanmar: Boat disaster victims Muslim, but which ones?

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): A minority ethnic group has denied that its members perished in a recent boat disaster off Myanmar despite evidence to the contrary, raising the suggestion that one Muslim group may be posing as another to gain humanitarian aid. The Myanmar Times claimed Monday that those who died were […]

27th Apr 2016

Myanmar Muslim leader urges calm amid ‘incitement’ by Buddhist monk

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): One of Myanmar’s top Muslim leaders urged calm Tuesday, after he accused a militia-style monk and his disciples of trying to incite violence by building an unauthorized Buddhist structure in the shadow of a mosque in the country’s southeast. “These are people who want to create an unstable […]

9th Apr 2016

Myanmar: Muslim activists jailed on allegation of migration offenses

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Two Muslim activists were sentenced Friday to two years prison on charges of contacting a blacklisted organization under Article 17 of Myanmar’s Unlawful Association Act. A court in Chanayetharzan Township in Mandalay, the second largest city and a stronghold of Buddhist nationalist monks, handed down the sentence to […]

7th Apr 2016

South Korea welcomes new halal certification system

By Alex Jensen SEOUL (AA): South Korea is encouraging local restaurants to serve up halal food by introducing a new certification system, according to the country’s tourism agency Thursday. An official at the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) revealed to Anadolu Agency that 200 halal eateries will be highlighted in a guide to be published […]

7th Apr 2016

Thailand: Army attack in south puts peace talks in doubt

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA): A suspected insurgent was killed early Thursday during a military operation in Thailand’s majority Muslim south, amid increasing skepticism about the credibility of ongoing peace talks between the military government and rebel groups. The chief of the Saiburi district police station in Pattani province told Anadolu Agency that “a […]

2nd Apr 2016

Thailand: Junta to place ‘re-education camps’ in Muslim south

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – The Thai junta is to place some of its “re-education training courses” in military camps in the Thai south — a region destabilized by a violent insurgency led by Malay Muslim groups. The Nation newspaper reported army chief Gen. Theerachai Nakwanich as saying Saturday that the “camps of […]

30th Mar 2016

Thailand: 3 policemen die, 6 injured in attack in south

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – Three policemen have been killed and six injured in a brazen midday attack by Muslim insurgents in Thailand’s troubled south. Police colonel Pakdi Preechachon, chief of the Chanae police station, told Anadolu Agency Tuesday that the men were attacked after a bomb exploded near their vehicle. “A pick-up […]

28th Mar 2016

Thailand: 2 soldiers killed in majority Muslim south

By Max Constant BANGKOK (AA) – Two Thai soldiers were gunned down Sunday in the country’s insurgency-plagued majority Muslim south, despite the ruling junta’s claims that conditions in the region are under control and improving. The chief of the Yarang district police station, in Pattani province, told Anadolu Agency, “two soldiers were shot by […]

15th Mar 2016

Cambodia: Khmer Rouge cadre charged with genocide of Cham Muslims

By Lauren Crothers PHNOM PENH, (AA): The international co-investigating judge at Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge tribunal forged ahead with his work on a government-opposed case Monday, laying extra charges on the former deputy secretary of the regime’s Central Zone. In March 2015, former International Co-Investigating Judge Mark Harmon initially charged Ta An with premeditated homicide […]

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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.

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