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Cape Town's Muslim Cuisine Combines Malay, South African And Indian Influences
Cape Malay community began to develop its own unique cuisine that is now recognised as one of South Africa's most unique micro cuisines.
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"No India, Only Malay": Singapore Muslim Couple "Shooed Away" From Ramzan Snacks
Jahabar Shalih, 36, and his wife Farah Nadya, 35, said a male employee at the supermarket run by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on April 9 "shooed" them away from the snack stand when they were doing their usual grocery shopping.
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Malaysia To Question Zakir Naik For Comments Against Malaysian Hindus
Malaysian authorities will summon controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik for questioning after he allegedly made racially sensitive remarks in the multi-ethnic nation, the government said on Thursday.
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Singapore Gets First Female President Without A Vote
Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the Muslim Malay minority, did not have to face an election for the largely ceremonial post originally due this month after authorities decided her rivals did not meet strict eligibility criteria.
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Malaysian Activists Question Role of Muslim 'Fashion Police'
Women in Malaysia, long seen as a moderate Islamic nation, have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.
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Gunmen Kill 2 Soldiers in Thai South, Independence Banners Found
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two soldiers in an ambush in Thailand's south today, police said, and dozens of banners calling for independence have been found in the insurgency-plagued region.
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Thailand Navy Votes to Buy Three Chinese Submarines Worth $1 Billion
Thailand's navy has voted in favour of buying three Chinese submarines worth US$1 billion, an official said Thursday, the kingdom's first such vessels in decades if the purchase is approved by the cabinet.
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Thais Caught With Gun in Pakistan Return Home
A group of Thai students who were detained in Pakistan after one of them was caught carrying a gun through Lahore airport returned home today after officials secured their release.
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Thailand's New Weapon to Beat Deep-South Insurgency: DNA Swabs
Thailand's military government has introduced a new strategy to curb the insurgency that has rumbled on in the country's jungle-blanketed deep south for more than a decade: DNA swabbing.
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Key issues, players and facts in Malaysia elections
Malaysians voted on Sunday in hotly anticipated general elections that raise the spectre of the country's first-ever change of government. Following are key electoral facts, players and issues.
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Malaysia: Gay engineer gets threats
A Muslim gay man in Malaysia says he fears for his safety after speaking about his sexuality in an Internet video that attracted online death threats and accusations by religious authorities that he is insulting Islam.Azwan Ismail told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday he was taking safety precautions following fierce criticism ...
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Malay court to decide on custody of ethnic Indian kids
Malaysia's top court will decide the validity of the 'conversion' of two children to Islam, by their converted ethnic Indian Muslim father.
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Cape Town's Muslim Cuisine Combines Malay, South African And Indian Influences
Cape Malay community began to develop its own unique cuisine that is now recognised as one of South Africa's most unique micro cuisines.
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"No India, Only Malay": Singapore Muslim Couple "Shooed Away" From Ramzan Snacks
Jahabar Shalih, 36, and his wife Farah Nadya, 35, said a male employee at the supermarket run by the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) on April 9 "shooed" them away from the snack stand when they were doing their usual grocery shopping.
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Malaysia To Question Zakir Naik For Comments Against Malaysian Hindus
Malaysian authorities will summon controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik for questioning after he allegedly made racially sensitive remarks in the multi-ethnic nation, the government said on Thursday.
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Singapore Gets First Female President Without A Vote
Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the Muslim Malay minority, did not have to face an election for the largely ceremonial post originally due this month after authorities decided her rivals did not meet strict eligibility criteria.
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Malaysian Activists Question Role of Muslim 'Fashion Police'
Women in Malaysia, long seen as a moderate Islamic nation, have been denied entry to government buildings on the grounds their skirts were too revealing, fanning fears of growing conservatism in a country with large non-Muslim minorities.
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Gunmen Kill 2 Soldiers in Thai South, Independence Banners Found
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two soldiers in an ambush in Thailand's south today, police said, and dozens of banners calling for independence have been found in the insurgency-plagued region.
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Thailand Navy Votes to Buy Three Chinese Submarines Worth $1 Billion
Thailand's navy has voted in favour of buying three Chinese submarines worth US$1 billion, an official said Thursday, the kingdom's first such vessels in decades if the purchase is approved by the cabinet.
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Thais Caught With Gun in Pakistan Return Home
A group of Thai students who were detained in Pakistan after one of them was caught carrying a gun through Lahore airport returned home today after officials secured their release.
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Thailand's New Weapon to Beat Deep-South Insurgency: DNA Swabs
Thailand's military government has introduced a new strategy to curb the insurgency that has rumbled on in the country's jungle-blanketed deep south for more than a decade: DNA swabbing.
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Key issues, players and facts in Malaysia elections
Malaysians voted on Sunday in hotly anticipated general elections that raise the spectre of the country's first-ever change of government. Following are key electoral facts, players and issues.
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Malaysia: Gay engineer gets threats
A Muslim gay man in Malaysia says he fears for his safety after speaking about his sexuality in an Internet video that attracted online death threats and accusations by religious authorities that he is insulting Islam.Azwan Ismail told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday he was taking safety precautions following fierce criticism ...
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Malay court to decide on custody of ethnic Indian kids
Malaysia's top court will decide the validity of the 'conversion' of two children to Islam, by their converted ethnic Indian Muslim father.
