Asia

Nearly a decade after fleeing China, more than 50 Uyghurs remain in Thai detention facilities, living in constant fear of being returned as China has been accused of grave human rights abuses.  “The situation is appalling,” a source told AFP,…

A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as the crowd surged into a narrow alley, killing at least 151 people and injuring 82 others in South Korea’s worst disaster in years. Emergency workers…

The Sharjah International Book Fair hosted rare Arabic and Islamic manuscripts dating back hundreds of years, some of which were displayed for the first time in the Middle East, and others dating back to the seventh century AH. The collection…

United Nations special envoy Noeleen Heyzer has condemned an air raid by Myanmar’s military in northern Kachin state that killed as many as 80 people, as she warned that a human rights and humanitarian crisis in the military-ruled country is exacting “a…

The Islamic Museum in the Qatari capital (Doha) witnessed the opening of an exhibition dedicated to Afghan refugees, depicting their suffering after their evacuation and their liberation from the oppression and killing they are subjected to at the hands of…

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres stressed the importance of global solidarity to combat the climate emergency and other current or emerging global challenges, during his visit to Vietnam to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Vietnam’s membership in the United Nations.…

As many as 74 percent of Bangladeshi citizens think that the Chinese government is repressive towards Uyghur Muslims while 24 per cent think that they are being persecuted just because of their religious identity, according to a survey. This survey…

Shia Muslim and Christian media professionals, filmmakers and researchers succeeded in communicating important Shia concepts and issues to the world, through their participation in the conference (Material, Ritual, and Senses: The Dynamic World of Lived Shia Islam), hosted by the…

The number of Muslims living in Japan, though small, has nearly doubled in the past decade, from 110,000 in 2010 to 185,000 at the end of 2019 (including as many as 50,000 Japanese converts), according to Tanada Hirofumi of Waseda…

International human rights organizations have condemned the arbitrary practices of the Chinese government towards the members of the Muslim Uyghur minority, which amounted to forced sterilization of women and men, with the aim of completely eliminating their offspring.  The organizations…