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The award given to Wirathu, a monk dubbed the 'Buddhist bin Laden', was presented by junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, the Myanmar military's information team said.
Buddhist Thailand is chasing halal gold as it welcomes Muslim visitors and touts its wares to the Islamic world.
Nine Muslim ministers and two provincial governors have resigned after a divisive fast by a Buddhist monk and accusations that some of them were linked to Islamic militants.
Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a blasphemy conviction against a Buddhist woman who was arrested after complaining about the volume of her local mosque's call to prayer.
Many Rohingya have been seeking in recent weeks to leave by sea from Bangladesh, where they live in squalid refugee camps after fleeing their mostly Buddhist homeland Myanmar.
Comment: Facebook is being used by Buddhist and Hindu extremists in Asia to spread messages of religious hatred and violence, writes CJ Werleman.
A 300-strong Buddhist mob in Rakhine's state capital Sittwe forced the ICRC to unload aid from a boat and prevented the vessel from leaving, local media reported on Thursday.
An unlikely partnership has emerged in Myanmar between the Buddhist clergy and the military, allowing for horrific violence to develop against the Rohingya with religious cover, reports Aurangzeb Qureshi.
To characterise campus protests as comparable to Nazi antisemitism, as Benjamin Netanyahu has done, is grotesque, writes Peter Singer.
In Japan, people are waking up to Israel's 75-year occupation of Palestine. New forms of Palestinian solidarity have emerged, from Tatreez to direct action.