GEORGE TOWN: Thousands thronged the waterfall area today to witness the grand consecration ceremony of the newly built hilltop Hindu temple, Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani Kovil.

Built by the Penang Hindu Endowments Board (PHEB) at the cost of RM10 million, the temple is said to be largest temple dedicated to Lord Muruga outside of India.

KUALA LUMPUR: A temple, which was in the midst of demolition by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), was saved in Kepong today, after timely intervention of Federal Territory and Urban Wellbeing Minister Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin.

The Veppam Kaliamman Amman temple, along Jalan Kepong, received an eviction notice only at 8.30 this morning, and work to break down the temple began 15 minutes later.

The temple committee ...

GEORGE TOWN: Racism has reared its ugly head in schools again and sources claim that there is an attempt to cover up the latest incident.

As the nation celebrates Teachers’ Day today, FMT however was alerted about a disturbing episode which took place at SMK George Town here.

Last week, a teacher at the secondary school had allegedly scolded a group of Indian Form Five students, calling them “Hindu Pariah.”

PRAI: The Penang government wants the port authorities to apologise to Hindus for demolishing a 40-year-old Hindu shrine near the checkpoint of Prai bulk cargo terminal.

Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng also demanded that the port landlord, the Penang Port Commission (PPC), and operator Penang Port Sdn Bhd (PPSB) find an alternate land to rebuild the demolished shrine.

KUALA LUMPUR: Hindraf Makkal Sakthi (HMS) – the non-political outfit of Human Rights Party (HRP) – wants the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to intervene so that it would be given recognition by the government.

“We want the king to intervene by advising the Umno-BN government to give us the formal regognition to represent the poor marginalised Indians,” said HMS national adviser, N Ganesan.

Ganesan led a delegation of seven HMS members, including HRP ...

The Batu Caves temple is almost inaccessible to the disabled because little consideration was given to include disabled-friendly features.

PETALING JAYA: The Batu Caves temple grounds, which underwent a RM3.1 million renovation to turn the holy site into a thriving tourism hub, is not disabled-friendly.

According to a disabled group, the temple management had failed to incorporate disabled-friendly features at the site despite having met with the group and ...

GEORGE TOWN: The Penang Hindu Endowments Board has rubbished allegations that it has usurped and leased out a temple land for commercial gains. The board’s executive director M Ramachandran insisted that the 69,717 sq feet land, located near the Jalan Siram – Jalan Telaga Air junction, next to the Butterworth Hindu cemetery, belonged to the board. Displaying the land registration document and map, he said the land fell under ...

GEORGE TOWN: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF), an influential lobby group, is setting up a comprehensive US Congress briefing on the Malaysian government’s marginalisation policies on minority communities, the organisation said in a statement today.

GEORGE TOWN: Hindraf Makkal Sakti’s London-based lawyers, who will be here starting Thursday, want to meet potential co-clients for the class action suit against the British government. In a statement to FMT, Hindraf counsel Imran Khan said he would be in Malaysia for several days to accept instructions from ethnic Indians as their legal representative in order to consider including them as co-claimants in the suit.

Athi Shankar | July 26, 2011 Law lecturer Azmi Sharom sees great relevance in the message behind the class action. GEORGE TOWN: An academic has hailed Hindraf Makkal Sakti’s decision to revive its suit against the British government, saying it will serve to draw domestic and international attention to the plight of Malaysian Indians. “The success of the suit is not relevant; it is the intended message that matters ...

By Athi Shankar GEORGE TOWN: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) wants the federal government to lift the nearly two-year ban on the human rights ...

By Athi Shankar GEORGE TOWN: The Human Rights Party Malaysia (HRP) wants the federal government to set aside RM53 billion in next year's budget for the ...

... off-spring Human Rights Party (HRP) are carrying a nationwide signature campaign protesting forced conversion of Hindus to Islam in the country. ...

Twenty-five officers from the disrict office and MPK demolished a shrine in Jalan Pendamar, Pandamaran, at 10am, citing that the shrine was built illegally ...

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In May, he updated and provided evidence to the UN Human Rights Council on the continued discrimination and marginalisation of minority Malaysians, ...

The demolition of yet another Hindu temple in Kuala Lumpur on June 24 brings forth the unresolved issues of Hindu temples located on 3rd party land and also ...

By Athi Shankar GEORGE TOWN: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) has lodged an official complaint to the United Nations on alleged discrimination ...

This fact aside, some 200 observers, including several international human rights watchdogs, have been invited to the convention. ...

Ask yourselves when there is no evidence of a name change in NRIC, no certificate of conversion, no traces of practicing the religion that the poor deceased ...

This will effectively assist Tamil schools to eradicate illiteracy among 42 percent of pupils enrolling in year one across the country, said Human Rights ...

He said this blatant violation of human rights was systematically executed at the expense of non-Malays, especially poor and underprivileged Indians, ...