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While Muslim women can wear the hijab in most settings in Singapore, some workplaces still ban the Islamic headscarf. Recent cases of women being told to take off their headscarves at work have ...
Singapore’s Acting Minister-in-Charge of Muslim Affairs Faishal Ibrahim has urged the public to stay respectful in the face ...
SINGAPORE - Pioneer Muslim women’s rights activist Khatijun Nissa Siraj, who was also a Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame inductee, died on Tuesday.She was 97.. She co-founded the non-profit ...
S INGAPORE, July 7 — A former massage therapist who claimed to possess supernatural powers and taught followers controversial ...
Significantly, she was only the second Muslim — and the first in 47 years — to become president of Singapore since the island state broke away from Malaysia in 1965 to become independent.
Muslim African-American women in the U.S. sometimes wear a hijab to signal their religious affiliation. They also want to dispel the assumption that all African-Americans are Christians, and that only ...
SINGAPORE: A former massage therapist was sentenced to four months' jail on Monday (July 7) on one count of teaching a ...
SINGAPORE: Noor Aishah, Singapore's former first lady and the widow of the country's first president Yusof Ishak, died on April 22.
Taipei yesterday was named the Muslim Women-friendly City Destination of the Year by CrescentRating at its 2025 Halal in Travel Awards in Singapore. Taipei Department of Information and Tourism ...
The couple later moved to Singapore, where Yusof was appointed as the Yang di-Pertuan Negara (Head of State) in 1959. Subsequently, in 1965, he became Singapore’s first President following the country ...