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The Council's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. No. 2, Leboh Pasar Besar, 50050 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: +603-20502050. The Malaysian Bar ( Malay: Badan Peguam Malaysia) is a professional body which regulates the profession of lawyers in peninsular Malaysia. In Malaysia, there is no distinction between a barrister and a solicitor, in that, it is a fused ...
The government of Selangor is based in the state's capital city of Shah Alam . The state government consists of only two branches – executive and legislative. The Selangor State Executive Council forms the executive branch, whilst the Selangor State Legislative Assembly is the legislature of the state government.
United States Department of State. / 38.89417°N 77.04833°W / 38.89417; -77.04833. The United States Department of State ( DOS ), [ 3] or simply the State Department, [ 4] is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs ...
The Speaker of the Selangor State Legislative Assembly (Malay: Yang di-Pertua Dewan Undangan Negeri Selangor; Chinese: 雪兰莪州立法议会议长; Tamil: சிலாங்கூர் மாநில சட்டப் பேரவையின் சபாநாயகர்) is the highest-ranking presiding officer in the Selangor State Legislative Assembly, the unicameral legislature of ...
Casual vacancies in the Dewan Undangan Negeri (state legislative assembly) are filled by by-elections, which may occur when a member of the Dewan Undangan Negeri dies, resigns or for some other reason. Members of the Dewan Undangan Negeri normally tender the resignation to the Speaker.
The only instance since at least 1980 in which the second in line reached a state governorship was on January 8, 2002, when New Jersey Attorney General John Farmer Jr. acted as governor for 90 minutes between Donald DiFrancesco and John O. Bennett's terms in that capacity as president of the Senate following governor Christine Todd Whitman's ...
The origin of the name Selangor is uncertain. A common suggestion is that the name refers to the Malay word langau, a large fly or blowfly that is found in the marshes along the Selangor River (Sungai Selangor) in the state's north-west. According to local lore, a warrior who escaped from Malacca after the Portuguese conquest, took a break from ...
Selangor Barat was a federal constituency in Selangor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Federal Legislative Council from 1955 to 1959. The federal constituency was created in the 1955 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Federal Legislative Council under the first past the post voting system. [1]