PM phones Bhutan counterpart, welcomes pilgrims visiting sacred Buddhist sites
- 22-Oct-2020
PM Khan in his telephonic conversation Thursday with the Bhutan counterpart discussed matters of mutual interests and challenges due to COVID-19 outbreak
Myanmar Buddhist temple now a nirvana for snakes
- 18-Oct-2018
MYANMAR: Crossing a bridge to the middle of a lake in Myanmar’s Yangon region, pilgrims arrive at a temple to pin their hopes on the pythons slinking across the temple’s floors and draped across windows. “People come here because they believe that their prayers will be fulfilled when they ask for something,” said Sandar Thiri, […]
Sri Lanka’s fugitive monk surrenders
- 21-Jun-2017
COLOMBO: A radical Buddhist monk wanted in connection with a string of hate attacks in Sri Lanka surrendered on Wednesday after four weeks on the run, police said. Galagodaatte Gnanasara gave himself up before a magistrate and was then arrested in connection with arson attacks targeting the island’s minority Muslim community in recent months. Police […]
Sri Lanka pressed over anti-Muslim hate crimes
- 01-Jun-2017
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka-based Western diplomats on Thursday urged Colombo to investigate a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the Buddhist-majority island following repeated arson attacks targeting shops, mosques and a cemetery in the past month. The European Union delegation chief Tung-Lai Margue urged the government to ensure perpetrators were prosecuted swiftly as the envoys visited a […]
Hardline Myanmar monk visits strife-torn Rakhine State
- 04-May-2017
YANGON: Hardline Myanmar monk Wirathu, once dubbed the “face of Buddhist terror” for his anti-Muslim diatribes, toured Rakhine State on Thursday in a provocative visit soon after a bloody army crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya minority. The firebrand monk visited Maungdaw, a town near the epicentre of the violence in the north of the state, […]
Thailand’s first halal hotel hopes to help boost Muslim arrivals
- 30-Aug-2016
BANGKOK: Predominately Buddhist Thailand has opened its first halal hotel as hopes to attract more Muslim visitors and boost one of the few bright spots in its economy.
Anti-Muslim Buddhist group moves toward Myanmar's mainstream
- 01-Sep-2015
YANGON: Swathed in crimson robes, 77-year-old Ashin Tilawkar Biwonsa shuffles through a crowded conference room with the help of an aide, his supporters standing in respect as he takes a seat at the head of a table under a portrait of his own image
Portuguese actor mistaken for terrorist on Paris plane
- 03-Jul-2015
LISBON: A Portuguese actor humming a prayer as he meditated to a sacred Tibetan text onboard a plane awaiting takeoff from Paris was mistaken for a terrorist by alarmed passengers and taken off the flight by police.