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Muslim Filipino group ready to help SEA Games organizers amid halal food concerns

Kristine Sabillo and John Gabriel Agcaoili, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 26 10:47 PM

The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos said it will again offer assistance to the organizers of the SEA Games amid complaints about a short selection of halal food. Read more »

'Pinagpasa-pasahan kami': SEA Games organizers ignored NCMF offer on halal food, claims exec

David Dizon, ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Nov 26 02:56 PM

MANILA (2ND UPDATE) - Organizers of the 2019 Southeast Asian Games ignored a warning from the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos to ensure that delegates from Islamic countries are served halal food during the games, an NCMF official claimed Tuesday.  Read more »

Leaked China documents reveal 'no mercy' in Xinjiang: NYT

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 18 08:24 AM

Human rights groups and outside experts say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities have been rounded up in a network of internment camps across the far-western region.   Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: November 15, 2019

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 16 02:05 AM

Here are the day's big stories in photos. Read more »

Manila to build its first Muslim cemetery in 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 04:59 PM

The Philippine capital will build its first Muslim cemetery next year, Mayor Francisco "Isko Moreno" Domagoso said Friday. Read more »

Isko meets Nur: Manila to establish Islamic cemetery

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Nov 15 04:56 PM

Manila Mayor Isko Moreno shows to Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari the proposed Muslim Cemetery at the Manila South cemetery during the latter's courtesy call on Friday. Read more »

Malaysia sentences 5 to jail for gay sex; caning, fines await arrested men

Reuters
Posted at Nov 07 09:01 PM

Sodomy and same-sex acts are illegal under Islamic law in Muslim-majority Malaysia, although convictions are rare. Read more »

At least 15 killed in attack in Thailand's restive south: officials

Reuters
Posted at Nov 06 11:02 AM

Suspected separatist insurgents killed at least 15 and wounded four village defense volunteers in a late-night shooting at a security checkpoint in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, security officials said on Wednesday. Read more »

OPINION: Killings of 7 youths spark tensions in new Muslim autonomous region

Inday Espina-Varona
Posted at Oct 29 11:51 AM

BARMM officials are conducting a separate probe into reports that 7 youths, including several minors, were massacred by government troops on October 23.  Read more »

Christian, Jewish, Muslim envoys sign joint paper vs assisted suicide

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 29 07:24 AM

ROME, Italy - Christian, Jewish and Muslim envoys signed Monday and submitted to Pope Francis a joint document that denounced euthanasia and assisted suicide as "inherently" wrong acts that should be forbidden. Read more »

P100-M pondo para sa mga MILF rebel returnees, ipinagkaloob na ng pamahalaan

Dexter Ganibe, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 22 01:10 AM

Ipagkakaloob na ng pamahalaan ang kabuuang P100 milyong pondo bilang ayuda sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebel returnees.   Read more »

Singapore hands down first conviction for terror financing

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 18 03:34 PM

SINGAPORE - A Singaporean man became the first of the country's citizens to be jailed for financing terrorism after he was convicted of sending money to a radical Islamist preacher. Read more »

Health crisis looms in BARMM after reemergence of polio

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 14 11:47 PM

A health crisis looms in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region where the first confirmed case of polio in the Philippines was recorded after nearly two decades. Read more »

Xinjiang: The making of China's far west police state

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 09 03:09 PM

BEIJING, China - China's all-encompassing security crackdown in Xinjiang has turned the northwest region -- home to most of the country's ethnic Uighur population -- into a place activists describe as an open air prison.  Read more »

OPINION: A National DPWH in BARMM is a step back

Edmund Tayao
Posted at Oct 07 12:35 PM

If the BARMM and local governments are not supported, development can never be achieved, and we will be left behind further than we already are. Read more »

7 MILF members killed by IS-linked gunmen

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 05 04:15 PM

MANILA - Seven former Muslim rebels have been killed in the southern Philippines, military and police authorities said Saturday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.   Read more »

Banana workers, including ex-rebels, appeal for help amid Maguindanao plant closure

Arianne Apatan, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 01 06:53 PM

TALAYAN, Maguindanao - Over a thousand employees of a banana plantation, including more than 600 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), have appealed for government's help as their company submitted a notice of cessation of business operations here.  Read more »

Bangladesh to fence Rohingya camps in further crackdown

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 26 10:17 PM

Bangladesh is set to erect barbed-wire fencing, guard towers and cameras around Rohingya camps, the home minister said Thursday citing security concerns, in a move critics said would turn the refugee settlements into prisons. Read more »

Duterte taps Cabinet to help set up Bangsamoro gov't

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 18 12:25 AM

MANILA—President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he formed a committee consisting of members of the Cabinet who will help the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) in setting up its new government. Read more »

Mga nakasuot ng hijab, dadaan sa masusing body inspection sa Davao City

Bonna Pamplona, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Sep 15 10:34 PM

Nagtayo ng mga cubicle inspection area sa mga checkpoint sa Davao City para sa masusing body inspection ng mga babaeng nakasuot ng hijab. Read more »