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Here’s a take a look at Malaysia, a rustic situated in Southeast Asia. Neighboring areas embrace Thailand, Borneo, Indonesia, Brunei and the South China Sea.
(from the CIA World Factbook)
Area: 329,847 sq km
Population: 33,871,431 (2022 est.)
Median age: 29.2 years
Capital: Kuala Lumpur
Ethnic Groups: Malay and indigenous 62.5%, Chinese 20.6%, Indian 6.2%, different 0.9%, non-citizens 9.8% (2019 est.)
Religions: Muslim 61.3%, Buddhist 19.8%, Christian 9.2%, Hindu 6.3%, Confucianism, Taoism and different conventional Chinese religions 1.3%, Other or Unspecified 1.4%, None 0.8% (2010 est.)
Unemployment: 3.3% (2019 est.)
Malaysia is made up of two noncontiguous areas: West Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula, which consists of 11 states, and East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo, which consists of two states.
The political coalition Barisan Nasional had been in energy for greater than 50 years, however was defeated by a coalition of opposition events led by former chief Mahathir Mohamad in 2018.
Opposition chief Anwar Ibrahim has obtained media consideration in reference to lacking Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah was a distant relative and Anwar supporter.
Since Malaysia’s independence in 1957, the sultans who’re the hereditary monarchs in 9 of the nation’s 13 states have chosen certainly one of themselves to serve a five-year time period as king. The king’s function is essentially ceremonial in Malaysia, and the ability to control resides with the federal Parliament and the prime minister.
1942-1945 – During World War II, the British protectorates Malaya and Borneo are occupied by Japan.
1946 – The Malayan Union is established and is initially comprised of 11 states.
1948 – The Malayan Union turns into the Federation of Malaya.
1957 – The Federation of Malaya turns into impartial of Great Britain.
September 16, 1963 – Malaysia is established and contains the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, and the Sarawak and Sabah colonies.
September 17, 1963 – The Philippines severs diplomatic relations with Malaysia on account of disagreements over territory in Sabah.
April 23, 1964 – The Malaysian Defense Ministry stories that Indonesian terrorists and guerillas had been behind the deaths of almost three dozen Malaysians between September and March.
May 1964 – The Philippines and Malaysia resume diplomatic relations with consular missions in Manila and Kuala Lumpur.
November 19, 1964 – Malaysia bans Indonesian-bound ships and planes carrying weapons and ammunition from its airfields and ports.
August 1965 – Singapore breaks away from the Malaysian federation.
July 1981 – Mahathir turns into Malaysia’s fourth prime minister, minister of house affairs and minister of justice.
2009 – Prime Minister Najib Razak takes workplace. He is the son and nephew of former prime ministers.
July 18, 2011 – After a gathering between Najib and Pope Benedict XVI, Malaysia turns into the 179th nation to ascertain official diplomatic ties with the Vatican.
April 11, 2012 – Paramount Ruler Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah takes workplace as head of state.
January 2014 – Following a prolonged court docket battle that started in 1998, opposition chief and former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anwar is acquitted of a sodomy cost.
March 2014 – After the federal government appeals Anwar’s acquittal, the next court docket overturns the choice and sentences him to 5 years in jail.
March 8, 2014 – Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, touring from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, disappears from radar in airspace over the Gulf of Thailand.
March 15, 2014 – Najib broadcasts that Flight 370 veered astray on account of a deliberate motion.
July 17, 2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashes in japanese Ukraine after being shot down by a surface-to-air missile. All 298 folks aboard are killed.
February 10, 2015 – Anwar’s sodomy conviction is upheld in Malaysia’s Federal Court.
March 8, 2016 – Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi broadcasts to Parliament that Malaysian authorities foiled an ISIS plot to kidnap Prime Minister Najib, together with two different rating officers, in January.
November 19, 2016 – Thousands of folks take to the streets of Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, to name for the resignation of Prime Minister Najib. Public dissatisfaction with Najib has grown, particularly after news broke over alleged monetary mismanagement of government-run fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).
December 2016 – Muhammad V is sworn in because the fifteenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Malaysia’s head of state. Previously, he reigned as sultan of Kelantan province for six years.
January 17, 2017 – The seek for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is suspended.
May 9, 2018 – Former Prime Minister Mahathir, who dominated from 1981 till 2003, wins 121 seats within the nation’s parliament, sufficient to type a easy majority and take management of the House.
May 10, 2018 – Mahathir, 92, is sworn in as prime minister.
May 15, 2018 – King Muhammad V grants Anwar a pardon for his sodomy conviction. Anwar was initially sentenced to 5 years in jail and was scheduled for launch in June 2018.
May 24, 2018 – Investigators announce that the Buk missile that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was fired from a launcher belonging to Russia’s 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade. The Russian Defense Ministry denies that any air protection missile programs ever crossed the Russia-Ukraine border.
January 6, 2019 – King Muhammad V broadcasts his abdication, after serving two years of his five-year time period. It marks the primary time in fashionable historical past that Malaysia’s constitutional chief has stepped down.
July 30, 2019 – Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah is sworn in because the sixteenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
September 6, 2019 – Penang’s ESCAPE theme park unveils the world’s longest tube waterslide.
January 20, 2020 – Malaysia’s atmosphere minister, Yeo Bee Yin, broadcasts she ordered 3,736 metric tons of trash to be returned to 13 nations. Of the 150 containers, 43 are despatched again to France and 42 to the United Kingdom, whereas the United States will obtain 17 and Canada 11.
February 24, 2020 – Mahathir resigns as prime minister.
February 29, 2020 – Muhyiddin Yassin is known as prime minister.
July 28, 2020 – Najib is discovered responsible on seven expenses associated to the 1MDB scandal, which noticed billions of {dollars} of taxpayers cash funneled and embezzled out of Malaysia.
October 13, 2020 – Anwar submits paperwork proving his “strong and convincing” parliamentary assist to type a authorities.
August 16, 2021 – Muhyiddin resigns as prime minister.
August 21, 2021 – Ismail Sabri Yaakob is sworn in as the brand new prime minister.
June 10, 2022 – Malaysia broadcasts it’s abolishing its loss of life penalty.
August 23, 2022 – Najib begins a 12-year jail sentence after his last path to enchantment is rejected by a five-judge panel at Malaysia’s High Court.
November 24, 2022 – Anwar is sworn in as prime minister. He was appointed by King Abdullah after a basic election during which neither Anwar nor former Prime Minister Yassin received a majority of votes, ensuing within the first hung parliament in Malaysian historical past.