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South Korean food company SPC group said on Monday that it has invested 40 billion won ($31 million) to enter Malaysia’s halal market with its bakery brand Paris Baguette. As Muslims account for almost 24 percent of the world’s population,…

A Hindu teacher in Bangladesh has donated a piece of land to the Muslim community for mosque construction. The teacher, Pranab Kumar Ghosh, at Kazi Azhar Ali College, has donated 35 decimal of land (around 1400 square meters) near Fakirhat…

Twenty-six people are missing after a ferry ran out of fuel and sank in bad weather off the coast of Indonesia, officials have said. The country’s search and rescue agency said the vessel was carrying 43 people when it capsized…

The city of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, is witnessing the construction of a new mosque that can accommodate 10,000 worshippers. Local media sources reported that the new mosque, which will be built through donations from benefactors, will become one…

The Malaysian Ministry of Environment and Water (KASA) intends to develop eco-friendly mosques through the use of endowments and grassroots donations. Malaysian Deputy Minister of Environment and Water Mansur Osman said the aim of the assistance is to provide easy,…

An international conference on the Quranic science of Tajweed was held in Saratov, southwestern Russia, marking the 1100th anniversary of the adoption of Islam by the people of the Volga Bulgaria. The conference was organized by the “Zayd Bin Thabet”…

At least 4 million people have been affected by the worst floods in Bangladesh’s northeast for nearly two decades, the United Nations said on Monday. The Bangladeshi government said the floods, which began last week, had submerged 70 per cent…

Media sources reported on Sunday that a prominent Shia leader was assassinated in Khorog, capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) in Tajikistan. Mamadbokir Mamadbokirov a Tajik Shia leader in the Badakhshan region was martyred Sunday during a special security…

The “Karbala Imambargah” Foundation in the town Mirpur, Bangladesh, organized a mourning ceremony to commemorate the anniversary of the demolition of Jannat al-Baqi in Medina.The Foundation said in a statement through its official Facebook page, that the ceremony included discussions…

An estimated 230,000 Muslims were living in Japan as of the end of 2020, according to Hirofumi Tanada, professor emeritus of sociology at Waseda University. But only seven cemeteries in Japan accept burials of Muslims. The entire Kyushu region has…