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The non-Muslim editor of the Sarawak Tribune, an English local newspaper in Malaysia, has resigned after publishing controversial cartoons satirizing the Prophet Mohammed in Saturday’s edition. The Sarawak Tribune reprinted …
Malaysian Editor Resigns After Posting Caricatures Read MoreThe Danish Foreign Ministry’s travel guidance for Indonesia advises all Danes to leave Indonesia no matter where they are in a vast country spanning a distance almost from Wales and …
Locals Say Bali Unaffected By Cartoon Controversy Read MoreUmno Youth, a wing of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) which is the biggest party in Malaysian Government, wants the Editor-in-Chief of the Sarawak Tribune newspaper to resign for …
Umno Youth Demands Editor-in-Chief Quit Read MoreAfter the furore over the published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed made it to Singapore, a coffee shop there has put up a sign saying that Danish citizens were not …
Danes Not Welcome In Singapore Coffee Shop Read MoreIn a square in Cotabato – approximately 930 kilometers south of Manila – more than 5,000 Muslims united earlier on Tuesday to show their condemnation of the Danish cartoon drawings …
Mohammed Cartoon Uproar Surfaces In The Philippines Read MoreOpinions are split between Bangkok’s two main English-language newspapers over the controversy caused by the recently published drawings of Muhammad. Yesterday Muslims held a peaceful demonstration in front of the …
Peaceful Protest Versus Decency Read MoreThe demonstration In front of the Danish Embassy in Jakarta today was calm and orderly. The building had not been closed and the police had only brought in a force …
Is the Danish Foreign Ministry Crying Wolf? Read MoreIn the summer of 2003, Thai Airways ran a nation-wide campaign in Denmark, which promised customers that they would automatically take part in a lottery for tickets to Thailand if …
Thai Airways Accepts Danish Fine For Inappropriate Ad Campaign Read MoreEven though no protests against the Danish Mohammed-drawings have been reported on Bali, major travel agencies in Denmark have now decided to terminate all bookings to the popular tourist destination. …
Danish Travel Agencies Suspend Trip Bookings To Bali Read MoreOn 6 February 2006, 100-200 demonstrators protested in a non-violent manner outside the Embassy of Denmark in Bangkok against a Danish newspaper publication of 12 drawings of the Prophet Mohammed. In …
Demonstration Outside Denmark’s Bangkok Embassy Read More