Reuters report in South China Morning Post, Nov15, 2017 The authorities in China’s far western region of Xinjiang have detained up to 30 relatives of an exiled ethnic Uygur leader, Rebiya Kadeer, the rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday. Xinjiang, where hundreds have died in recent years in violence between majority Han Chinese and ethnic Uygurs who call Xinjiang home, is under tight security and independent reporting there is difficult. Uygurs are a mostly…
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PTI report in The Times of India on line Nov 15, 2017 BEIJING: Hundreds of Christians in an impoverished county in rural China have swapped posters of Jesus Christ for portraits of President Xi Jinping as part of a local government poverty-relief programme, a media report said. The Yugan county in Jiangxi province has a large Christian community and about 10 per cent of its population is Christian. More than 11 per cent of its…
by Chowdhury Akbor Hossain in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 15, 2017 Tabligh Jamaat, an Islamic non-political organisation based in Bangladesh, is being ripped apart by a long standing internal dispute among its top leaders. The dispute over establishing dominance reached a new height after two factions of the organization engaged in a violent clash on the premises of Kakrail Mosque in Dhaka on Tuesday. According to sources from the Tabligh, scuffle between the two factions is…
by Ashif Islam Shaon in Dhaka Tribune, Nov 15,2017 There have been several major attacks on the religious minorities across Bangladesh in the last five years over Facebook posts defaming Islam and Prophet Muhammad. In all cases, the attackers ransacked and burned houses belonging to the minority communities. Places of worships were also not spared. But lengthy investigation and trial proceedings meant that none of those responsible for the attacks had been punished. Residents of…
by Reaz Ahmad and Rejaul Karim Byron in the daily star, Nov 15, 2017 More than a year after the Chinese president’s historic Dhaka visit, some of Bangladesh’s key development projects have finally gained momentum. Dhaka and Beijing have reached the final stage of signing loan agreements on eight projects, including the crucial Padma Bridge Rail Link. Last week, Bangladesh forwarded to China a new list of 12 projects earmarking those as priorities in 2018,…