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1. New arrivals kept early worship in house
Asian News, Monday 1 October 2007AS part of the Rochdale Observer's Keeping The Faith series, Shelina Begum looks at two mosques that have made a significant impact in the town's Muslim community.
2. India's marathon wonder boy's coach charged with torture
Asian News, Thursday 16 August 2007The coach of a six-year-old Indian boy who entered the record books last year when he ran 40 miles in seven hours was charged with torturing the child.
3. Oxfam fundraising appeal for South Asian floods
Asian News, Wednesday 8 August 2007International aid agency Oxfam today launched a £1 million appeal for its work to help nearly 200,000 flood victims in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.
4. Bananas failed to have the laxative effect on the suspect
Asian News, Monday 6 August 2007An Indian thief was made to eat dozens of bananas as a laxative, to retrieve a necklace he was accused of stealing and which he swallowed.
5. Breaking the silence
Asian News, Monday 29 January 2007WHEN Mukhtar Mai was gang raped in front of her whole village in rural Pakistan - as punishment for a crime allegedly committed by her brother - tribal custom dictated that she should then kill herself.
6. Beneath the green dome
Asian News, Tuesday 19 December 2006IN THE mainstream media, mosques are often portrayed as inward looking, secretive and sometimes extreme.
7. From the mill to magistrates’ bench
Asian News, Friday 24 November 2006WHEN Mudassir Khan arrived in Blackburn from Pakistan in 1957 as a 21-year-old student - his plan was to complete his studies in the UK and return to the home land in three-years time.
8. The first fast and the first Eid
Asian News, Friday 4 November 2005ASIAN News chief reporter Shelina Begum investigates the background and significance of the Muslim festival of Eid
9. ‘Possessed’ by evil spirits neighbours queued to see her
Asian News, Friday 24 September 2004Chief reporter Shelina Begum investigates one teenage girl's journey to hell and back
10. ‘Cool’ Islam
Asian News, Monday 31 May 2004How cowgirl Asma defends the faith