Film Trailer: Singaporean lady maiden visit to late father’s home in Punjab
By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | A 63-year-old India-born Singaporean visits her late father’s home in Punjab, India, for the very first time, hoping to find closure after a lifetime in Singapore....
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What led to 1984? A webinar to help you make sense
Public Service Announcement | WEBINAR | What actually took place in the run-up to the 1984 attacks upon the Darbar Sahib in Amritsar and Sikhs all over India?Sikh Research Institute (SikhRi) is rolling...
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Jagmeet Singh pushes for 10-day paid sick leave for Canadian workers
Jagmeet Singh: Deputy Leader of Ontario New Democratic Party – PHOTO / FACEBOOK By Asia Samachar Team | CANADA | As more and more businesses are being asked to reopen, New Democrat Party (NDP) leader...
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Boxes of Timber – A Gurdwara Exuding The Warmth Of Wood
Boxes of Timber – Design by Vishal J Singh By Vishal J. Singh | GURDWARA DESIGN | “It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and...
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Afghan religious minorities ‘remained endangered’, says US commission
The March attack on a Kabul gurdwara – Photo: USCIRF Twitter By Asia Samachar Team | UNITED STATES | Afghanistan’s religious minorities, including Hindus and Sikhs, ‘remained endangered’, declared a...
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Life under the Taliban
By Inderjeet Singh | BOOK EXTRACT | By 1996, the Taliban, a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist group had captured most of Afghanistan and when they captured Kabul in September that year, 90 percent of the...
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From flipping burgers to Harvard. A story of an Afghan Sikh refugee
Awnit Singh Marta – Photo: Personal facebook page By Asia Samachar Team | UNITED STATES | From searching a place to call home to flipping burgers, Afghan-born Awnit Singh Marta has been through quite a...
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Malaysian girl joins UN-backed space programme
Brelveenraj Kaur By Kirat Kaur | MALAYSIA | Brelveenraj Kaur Rajwant Singh has always been a curious admirer of the wonders of space, but little did she know that she would one day represent the...
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Sikh veterans step forward
Malaysian Veterans Association president Awtar Singh handing cheque to Gurdwara Sahib Pulapol representative By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | They have served the nation, but they don’t intend to...
View ArticleGroom, Hindu temple chairman and priest fined for holding wedding
By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | A bridegroom was among three men slapped with a RM1,000 compound fine each for flouting the conditional movement control order (CMCO) for organising a wedding...
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British armed forces commemorate Guru Arjan’s martyrdom
Corporal Pardeep Kaur – Photo: UK MOD Facebook page By Asia Samachar Team | BRITAIN | British Sikh armed forces men and women shared the message of their faith with fellow soldiers. The Defence Sikh...
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Pritam Kaur Dhillon (1934-2020), Sungai Petani
ਘਲੇ ਆਵਹਿ ਨਾਨਕਾ ਸਦੇ ਉਠੀ ਜਾਹਿ ॥੧॥ In Loving Memory Of LATE PRITAM KAUR DHILLON D/O LATE BERSAVA SINGH W/O LATE PRITAM SINGH PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY ON 25TH MAY 2020 Deeply missed by Children & Spouse:...
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Is Covid-19 really a big deal for gurdwaras?
By Taranjit Kaur | MALAYSIA | How safe are we with this virus lingering around and what about going to the gurdwara? A flood of questions come to the mind. The first quarter of this year has witnessed...
View ArticleNankana Sahib in the eyes of a Pakistan blogger
READER’S PICK | ‘Living as a minority in Pakistan: Nankana Sahib Vlog’ captures some beautiful scenes at Nankana Sahib, the birth place of Guru Nanak. Lahore-based blogger Miss Chatter uploaded this...
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11th Sikh Regiment members in New Guinea
5th Bn, 11th Sikh Regt, – Photo: Australian War Memorial Some of the 66 members of the 5th Bn, 11th Sikh Regt, who were freed by US forces from a PoW camp. They had been captured after the fall of...
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Gurdwaras turn to savings to keep things going
Gurdwara officials (clockwise from left): Amrick Singh (Subang), Gurmukh Singh (SGSS Singapore), Sourjan Singh (Kuantan), Amarjit Kaur (Kota Kinabalu), Ranjit Singh (Kajang) and Gurcharan Singh (Sungai...
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Sikh schoolgirl sewing PPEs for frontliners
Preisha Kaur Jammu By Asia Samachar Team | MALAYSIA | She is just 12 years old but she can sew! Student Preisha Kaur Jammu jumped at the chance of helping the medical frontliners in their battle with...
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How ex-Punjab DGP Sumedh Saini used fear psychosis
Chandigarh: Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini addresses during a press conference in Chandigarh on Jan. 7, 2014. – Photo: ProKerala By Jatinder Kaur | PUNJAB, INDIA | On 6 May 2020, in the midst of the...
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Sikhs join Black Lives Matter protest
Sikhs join Black Lives Matter protest – Photo: National Sikh Campaign By National Sikh Campaign | US | This weekend we saw protests around the country calling attention to the systemic racism our black...
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Sikh entrepreneurs to exit Singapore listed company
Dr Veerinderjeet Singh (left) and Ranjit Singh – Photo: Supplied By Asia Samachar Team | SINGAPORE | A group of Malaysian investors, including two Sikh entrepreneurs, are set to exit the...
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