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1 December: Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, replacing Tun Ghafar Baba. 11 December: Block A of Highland Towers apartments suddenly collapsed at 1:35 pm in Hillview Park, Hulu Kelang, Selangor, leaving 48 people died and two people survived. This incident became the deadliest structural failure in Malaysian ...
After gaining independence on 31 August 1957, the Boy Scouts International Bureau formally issued membership on 1 September 1957 to the nation's Scouting body which took shape as Federation of Malaya Boy Scouts Association and officially established as Persekutuan Kanak-kanak Pengakap Malaysia or Boy Scouts Association of Malaysia and ...
Pengiran Muda Hashim was dispatched to Sarawak by the Sultan in the early 1835s to bring about order. [1] At the beginning of the 19th century, Brunei held jurisdiction over Sarawak, which was a region with slack governance.
Artist's interpretation of Siti Wan Kembang. Che Siti Wan Kembang (Jawi: چئ سيتي وان كمبڠ ) was a legendary queen who reigned over a region on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, now located within the Malaysian state of Kelantan.
The expedition of the Chola Emperors had such a great impression on the Malay people of the medieval period that their name was mentioned in the corrupted form as Raja Chulan in the medieval Malay chronicle Sejarah Melaya.
A copy of Undang-Undang Melaka displayed in the Royal Museum, Kuala Lumpur.. Undang-Undang Melaka (Malay for 'Law of Melaka', Jawi: اوندڠ٢ ملاک ), also known as Hukum Kanun Melaka, Undang-Undang Darat Melaka and Risalah Hukum Kanun, [1] was the legal code of Melaka Sultanate (1400–1511).
It mentions that Aloeswood and camphor were abundant in the kingdom, and its capital was described as being surrounded by walls to form a city with double gates, towers and pavilions. Both men and women in Langkasuka wore sarongs with their torsos bare and their hair loose, although the king and senior officials covered their shoulders with ...
The Kenya Literature Bureau was initially established by the "East Africa governments (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda)" [1] in 1947 as the East African Literature Bureau as an "offshoot" of the missionary-owned Ndia Kuu Press in order to publish books for the general public in Kiswahili, East African vernacular languages and English.