Wellington interfaith free kitchen hits one year mark
By Ekta NZ | NEW ZEALAND | The service started after the Christchurch shooting. The intention was to have an ethnic community meet a gap in the city’s food banks that exists at the weekends and to do...
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Covid-19 pandemic blessing to Malaysia’s national unity, says Sikh academician
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | The current COVID-19 pandemic situation is seen as a blessing that has helped to reinforce the concept of unity among Malaysia’s multi-racial communities, observes an...
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Spirit of Bhai Kanhaiya lives on
Painting by Mandeep Singh Bains (Toonistbains) By Dr. B.S. Bains | OPINION | Selfless service to Mankind is embedded in every student of The Great Sikh Gurus, right from Guru Nanak’s Three Principle...
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Narindar Singh (N Singh) (1952-2020), Klang
ਘਲੇ ਆਵਹਿ ਨਾਨਕਾ ਸਦੇ ਉਠੀ ਜਾਹਿ ॥੧॥ Sardar Narindar Singh (N Singh) s/o Late Sardar Banta Singh Teluk Pulai, Klang (8 June 1952 – 15 May 2020) It is with a heavy heart that we, the family, regret to...
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Malaysian interfaith group says working with authorities on guidelines for...
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Malaysian interfaith leaders are in discussion with the authorities on guidelines for non-Muslim places of worships which are still out of bound for mass prayer...
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Two stranded Indian passengers housed at Tatt Khalsa test positive for Covid-19
Covid-19 testing at Wisma Tatt Khalsa. Insert: Testing process for general public, with Wisma Tatt Khalsa in the view By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Two Indian tourists housed at a gurdwara complex...
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900 days & counting: Jagtar continues to languish in Indian prisons
Jagtar Singh Johal By Asia Samachar Team | BRITAIN | The family of Sikh activist Jagtar Singh Johal have said that they have not heard from him since September 2019. Jaggi has been imprisoned in India...
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A burning passion to capture stories of Sikhs in Malaysia
Dr Manjit Singh Sidhu – Photo: Asia Samachar By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | It took the passing away of his father to spur him into capturing the first draft of the history of Sikhs in Malaysia....
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Sikhi: The Path for the New Age
By Gurmukh Singh | OPINION | What is meant by Sikhi Ik Sresht Dharam? This topic is discussed on the forums from to time. The expression, Sikhi Ik Sresht Dharam, is used by Sikh scholars to bring out...
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Sinda ramps up outreach to younger audiences
Sonya Kaur Pandey and her parents – Photo: Sinda 2019 annual report By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | Singapore parents Ranjeev Pandey and Melvinder Kaur noticed that their five-year old daughter was...
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RTM censors Punjabi film for showing positive side of humanity!
By DJ Bombay Singh (George Town) | LETTER TO EDITOR | MALAYSIA | Hello Editor, On a recent Wednesday night (6 May), I watched Lahoriye on RTM’s TV2. The film is about a pair of lovers who, despite...
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Amazing grace
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | AN attempt by Punjabi Christians to brazenly attract Sikhs into their fold in Ipoh, Perak, five years ago saw a vigorous pushback from the Sikh community leaders....
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Kawal Preet rises further in FedEx Express
Kawal Preet -Photo: Supplied By Asia Samachar Team | NEW YORK | Kawal Preet, who joined FedEx Express in 1997 as an associate engineer in Singapore, is one of the top women leaders in the world of...
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Last whistle for former Fifa referee Jaswant Singh
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | DSP (Rtd) Jaswant Singh Sran, one of the first Sikhs to become an international football referee, passed away today (19 May) at a quarantine centre after several...
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Covid-19 and spectre of Fascism
By Gurnam Singh | OPINION | I am sure most people’s immediate response to the image above, which is of slogans projected by ordinary citizens onto flats in São Paulo, is to say yes! Who in their right...
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D.S.P. (R) Jeswant Singh Sran (1939-2020), PDRM / FIFA Referee
IN LOVING MEMORY OF D.S.P. (R) JESWANT SINGH SRAN (6 Sept 1939 – 19 May 2020) With deep sorrow, we wish to inform that D.S.P. (R) Jeswant Singh Sran passed away peacefully today, 19/5/2020, aged 80,...
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Joginder Paul’s iconic Urdu novel now in English
By Asia Samachar Team | INDIA | Joginder Paul’s iconic Urdu novel “Ek Boond Lahoo Ki” has been translated into English. A Drop of Blood, as translated by Snehal Shingavi, was recently as an ebook was...
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The most respected Sikh in Southeast Asia
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Sohan Singh was no simple granthi. No wonder that the former Malacca gurdwara granthi went on to become one of the most famous Sikhs in Southeast Asia. Since his...
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Sikh officer makes history for Alameda County
Officer Jujhar Singh By Asia Samachar Team | UNITED STATES | Officer Jujhar Singh makes history as the first turban-bearing Sikh officer in Alameda County, the seventh most populous county in the state...
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Flying Sikhs
Ready to fly: Amritpal Singh (left) and Hargobind Singh at the controls of an Airbus 330 – Photo: Hargobind Singh Facebook page By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | Looking good! Two Sikh pilots in a...
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