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21 killed [1] Property damage. $560 million (USD 2016) [2] The 2014–2015 Malaysia floods affected Malaysia from 15 December 2014 – 3 January 2015. More than 500,000 people were affected in Malaysia. Kelantan was the highest affected with 354,800 while 21 were killed. [1] These floods have been described as the worst in decades.
19 September – 4 October – 2014 Asian Games in Incheon: Malaysia sent 277 athletes and 140 officials to the games and participated in 28 sports. It won 33 medals consist of 5 Golds, 14 Silvers and 14 Bronzes at this mega-sporting event. 19 September – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crash:
The Malayan Emergency, also known as the Anti-British National Liberation War[ 1] (1948–1960), was a guerrilla war fought in British Malaya between communist fighters of the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) and the military forces of the Federation of Malaya, British Empire and Commonwealth. The communists fought to win independence ...
Other conspiracy theories propagated by Russian pro-government media included claims that the Ukrainians had shot down the airliner by mistake, drawing parallels to the downing of Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 in 2001 (reported in December 2014 [403]); that Ukrainian air traffic controllers had deliberately redirected the flight to fly over the ...
The 13 May incident was an episode of Sino-Malay sectarian violence that took place in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on 13 May 1969.The riot occurred in the aftermath of the 1969 Malaysian general election when opposition parties such as the Democratic Action Party and Gerakan made gains at the expense of the ruling coalition, the Alliance Party.
The 2014 Selantik coal mine explosion took place on 22 November 2014 in Selantik, Pantu at Sri Aman Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. Four people died and at least 30 others were injured in a coal mine explosion at the Selantik coal mine near Pantu town about 23 kilometres from Sri Aman town. [1] [2]
No deaths were reported among foreign tourists. Houses in fishing villages along coastal areas were damaged in Batu Ferringhi and Balik Pulau in Penang. Coastal areas in Peninsular Malaysia e.g. 13 villages in Kuala Muda, Kedah and Kuala Triang in Langkawi island were also affected. About a quarter of holiday vessels anchored in Rebak and ...
The 2015 Southeast Asian haze was an air pollution crisis affecting several countries in Southeast Asia, including Brunei, Indonesia (especially its islands of Sumatra and Borneo ), Malaysia, Singapore, southern Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and the Philippines . The haze affected Indonesia from at least late June, [1] to the end of October ...