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1. With scissors and a blade they set about their bloody task

Asian News, Friday 25 April 2003
TARA Sheikh was understandably nervous when she flew into Cairo for Manchester to prepare for her arranged marriage to her cousin.

2. My journey 'home'

Asian News, Friday 1 March 2002
Asian News chief reporter SHELINA BEGUM recently went to Bangladesh to marry - last month she wrote of her four-day wedding ceremony. In this month's issue she writes of her vivid impressions of her homeland

3. Learning Liberation

Asian News, Thursday 10 July 2003
School is a joy after 10 years of the Taliban

4. Breaking the silence

Asian News, Monday 29 January 2007
WHEN 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.

5. India's marathon wonder boy's coach charged with torture

Asian News, Thursday 16 August 2007
The 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.

6. Oxfam fundraising appeal for South Asian floods

Asian News, Wednesday 8 August 2007
International aid agency Oxfam today launched a £1 million appeal for its work to help nearly 200,000 flood victims in India, Bangladesh and Nepal.

7. Bananas failed to have the laxative effect on the suspect

Asian News, Monday 6 August 2007
An 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.

8. Beneath the green dome

Asian News, Tuesday 19 December 2006
IN THE mainstream media, mosques are often portrayed as inward looking, secretive and sometimes extreme.

9. From the mill to magistrates’ bench

Asian News, Friday 24 November 2006
WHEN 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.

10. New arrivals kept early worship in house

Asian News, Monday 1 October 2007
AS 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.
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