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Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday announced that female Muslim staff in Singapore’s public healthcare, including nurses, are allowed to wear hijab or “tudung” as an add-on to their uniforms starting November. He noted that wearing tudung became increasingly important for the Muslim community, and for many Muslim women it is an important part of their faith and expression …
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September, 2021
- 2 September
‘Bad idea’: Israel’s foreign minister slams US plan to reopen Palestinian consulate
A picture taken on 18 October 2018 shows the US Consulate in Jerusalem before its operations were merged with Israel’s US embassy (AFP) Yair Lapid warned that reopening the consulate for Palestinian outreach could ‘destabilise’ Israel’s coalition government Israel’s foreign minister has slammed the Biden administration’s plan to reopen the US consulate in Jerusalem to provide diplomatic outreach to Palestinians, warning it could destabilise …
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‘Blood for Blood’: Resistance in Jenin By Ramzy Baroud
Jenin refugee camp, 2011. (Mujaddara/Wikimedia Commons) It is obvious that what is currently taking place in Jenin is indicative of something much larger. Israel knows this, thus the exaggerated violence against the refugee camp, writes Ramzy Baroud. The killing of four young Palestinians by Israeli occupation soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, on August 16, is a …
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August, 2021
- 31 August
MMDA: Will The Cabinet Be Judiciously Cautious? By Mass L. Usuf –
This refers to the article titled “MMDA: Will The Cabinet Blink?” written by Mr. Ameer Faaiz which appeared in Colombo Telegraph on 23/08/2021. In the greater interest of (1) the rights of Muslim women, men and children (2) the continuation of the Sri Lankan heritage of legal pluralism and (3) the uniquely diverse ethno-religious-cultural composition, the cabinet may be cautioned against injudiciously …
Read More » - 30 August
Dinesh wins gold for Sri Lanka in Paralympics
Dinesh Priyantha won the first Gold Medal for Sri Lanka at the Tokyo Paralympics after he set a new World Record in the Men’s F46 Javelin Throw with a distance of 67.79m Dinesh Priyantha broke the record of 63.97m set by Devendra in India at the 2016 Rio Paralympics. Dinesh Priyantha Herath who is a sergeant of the Gajaba Regiment …
Read More » - 28 August
Azwer’s outstanding parliamentary record
Marhoom Al Haj Abdul Hameed Mohamed Azwer It is four years to the day that Marhoom Al Haj Abdul Hameed Mohamed Azwer left this world. May God grant him a special place in paradise and make his grave a place of rest and tranquillity. Azwer’s loquacious participation in every debate in the Sri Lanka parliament, and his trilingual wit, has …
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The PA is an obstacle to freedom by Anjuman Rahman
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas makes a speech as he attends the Advisory Board meeting of the Palestine National Liberation Movement (FATAH) in Ramallah, West Bank on 9 December 2018. [Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency] Last weekend, 24 Palestinian activists demanding accountability for the death of fellow campaigner Nizar Banat were arrested, detained and brutally beaten in custody by members of the Palestinian Authority …
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