By Hani Hazaimeh, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Since the unrest in Syria began in mid-March, hundreds of Syrian citizens have fled to the Kingdom seeking a safe haven for their families – some made it through the legal channels, but many others had to jump the fence between the two […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden through Asian Human Rights Commission About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation that monitors human rights in Asia, documents violations and advocates for justice and institutional reform to ensure the protection and promotion of these rights. The Hong Kong-based group was founded […]
WikiLeaks’ Asian Field Day In Indonesia, the national police are discovered to be using a hard-line Islamic group as its hidden “attack dog.” In Indonesia, octogenarian Singaporean founder Lee Kuan Yew calls Islam a “venomous religion. In Malaysia, UMNO leaders are “willing to blacken Malaysia’s reputation to ensure the end […]
By MD HUMAIDAN | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A total of 400 young Saudi men and women will tie the knot next week during a mass wedding sponsored by Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal. Saeed Al-Niaimi, chairman of the Welfare Society for Marriage Assistance and Family Care that is organizing the […]
source:Dailytimes-Pakistan Two despicable terrorist attacks targeting the Shiites in Pakistan should ring alarm bells but it seems that the Pakistani state is oblivious to any such warnings. On Eid day, 11 people lost their lives while more than a dozen others were injured when a suicide bomber targeted a Shia […]
Source / Courtesy: Times of India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s upcoming visit to Bangladesh – along with the chief ministers of five bordering Indian states – is ground-breaking in more ways than one. For far too long, India’s South Asia policy had a single-minded focus on Pakistan. While the latter is […]
By AGENCIES, ARABNEWS AMMAN: Security forces killed at least two people as they moved into central and northwest Syria on Thursday, activists said, urging fresh anti-regime protests under the banner of “death rather than humiliation.” Hours before, Hama’s attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against bloody […]
Source/Credit: Reuters The Kronos Global Absence survey conducted online in July and released this week found that respondents from countries where there is more paid leave for employees were much less likely to cry off work with an invented illness than those from countries with fewer holiday allowances. The Harris […]
By ARAB NEWS The tourism industry in Malaysia currently ranks as the second foreign exchange earner. As far as the results go, promoting the tourism industry has been one of the country’s success stories. In celebrating Malaysia’s 53 years of nationhood, its tourism industry certainly deserves due recognition for its […]
By Mohammad Ghazal and AFP, Jordan Times AMMAN – Tuesday is the first day of Eid Al Fitr, the feast marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, according to a statement by Chief Islamic Justice Ahmad Hilayel on Monday. Although the crescent of the new lunar month of […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was given a presentation on the new project to expand the mataf (the circumambulation areas around the Holy Kaaba). The project, which will be completed in three years, will enable 130,000 pilgrims to perform tawaf (circumambulation) at a time. Higher […]
By Hani Hazaimeh, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – Families of Jordanian prisoners in Syria, journalists and activists said they will launch a campaign to pressure the government to address Syrian authorities in hopes to uncover the fate of an estimated 253 Jordanians thought to be in Syrian jails, a statement issued […]
BY REZA MAARASHI, ALJAZEERA ENGLISH International sanctions have exacerbated the pain of the middle class struggling with high levels of unemployment. Iranians’ displeasure with their government is palpable and transcends demographics. Before the contested 2009 presidential election, few were satisfied with the government’s performance. Since then, this displeasure has only […]
Indonesian Muslim youths keep faith amid reform According to a recent survey by Germany’s Goethe-Institute, the bulk of youths in the world’s largest Muslim-majority country share remarkably traditional values about faith and family, despite a decade of social and political change since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship. More than […]
by MOHAMMED MAR’I, ARAB NEWS RAMALLAH: A Palestinian human rights organization on Thursday said Israel has begun using new methods of physical and psychological torture against Palestinian and Arab prisoners. The Mandela Institute for Political Prisoners said in a press statement that the Israeli internal intelligence agency Shin Bet has […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A former Makkah mayor has proposed the construction of seven vast mosques in prime locations within the Haram area in order to avoid the overcrowding of pilgrims and worshippers at the Grand Mosque. Speaking to Al-Madinah Arabic daily, Fouad Muhammad Tawfik said […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Over 2 million pilgrims and visitors will watch the Khatm Al-Qur’an (conclusion of the recitation of the Holy Qur’an) Sunday night at the two holy mosques in Makkah and Madinah. The Holy Qur’an, which is recited during taraweeh prayer, is usually read […]
By Khetam Malkawi, Jordan Times AMMAN – Hotels in Aqaba and at the Dead Sea are packed for the Eid Al Fitr vacation, with Jordanians and Arab Israelis topping the list of customers. Hotels in both areas reported 100 per cent occupancy rate for the August 30-September 2 holiday marking […]
Source: Jordan Times His Majesty King Abdullah’s meeting with heads of the Orthodox churches in the Middle East is a reminder to the international community and the Arab countries that Muslims and Christians in the region, and indeed elsewhere in the world, of the need for peaceful religious accommodation and […]
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