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321. Heritage
Asian News, Monday 20 August 2007FOR information about news from the Indian subcontinent, a look back at South Asian history and migration, religion and even political views, visit our Heritage section.
322. Bodies rot as nature’s undertakers die away
Asian News, Monday 2 April 2007ONE of the most unusual, if not spooky, sites in India's biggest city, Mumbai, is the Towers of Silence.
323. Asian ‘izzat’ cover for child abuse claims report
Asian News, Monday 2 April 2007FEARS of undermining family 'honour' are preventing Asians in the north west from reporting child abuse to the authorities.
324. The positive face of Islam
Asian News, Wednesday 30 January 2008WATCHING the daily news stories of never-ending troubles, hardship, misery and violence across the Arab world and central Asia, it is not surprising that many in the west view the culture of these countries as backward, and their religion as at best conservative and often as violent and extremist.
325. School named in honour of mother
Asian News, Friday 1 February 2008RETIRED Rochdale Council council training officer Ghulam Rasul Shahzad has set up a sewing school in Pakistan in memory of his late mother.
326. Pakistani police use emergency powers to detain protesters
Asian News, Monday 5 November 2007Pakistani police launched a harsh crackdown today on the first street protests since General Pervez Musharraf assumed sweeping emergency powers last Saturday.
327. Dutch MP’s anti- Quran film: Is this the road to integration?
Asian News, Tuesday 18 March 2008IT was on September 30, 2005, when the Danish daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten’s, published cartoons depicting the Prophet of Islam in an attempt to "test the level of tolerance of Muslims" living in Danish Society.
328. No food, no clothes, no home. The poor who have lost everything
Asian News, Monday 26 November 2007Collapsed homes, uprooted trees and inundated crops puncture the serenity of the view from the Bangladeshi Air Force helicopter as it approaches the site of the country's worst cyclone in more than a decade.
329. Aid is slow to reach Bangladesh cyclone survivors
Asian News, Thursday 22 November 2007Thousands of people made homeless by last week's devastating Bangladesh cyclone are still waiting for aid to reach them say relief workers and local media.
330. Women activist helps victims in Bangladesh
Asian News, Wednesday 21 November 2007Head of women’s rights for ActionAid in Bangladesh, Naima Choudhry, 36 from Dhaka talks about how women are coping following the devestation left behind after the country was hit by Cyclone Sidr.