Under Mahathir bin Mohamad ’ s long Prime Ministership ( 1981 – 2003 ), Malaysia ’ s political culture became increasingly centralized and authoritarian, due to Mahathir's belief that the multiethnic Malaysia could only remain stable through controlled democracy.

In 2003 Dr Mahathir, Malaysia's longest serving prime minister, voluntarily retired in favour of his new deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

* 1981 – Mahathir Mohamad becomes Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister ; his 22 years in office, ending with retirement on 31 October 2003, made him Asia's longest-serving political leader.

* 2003 – Mahathir bin Mohamad resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia and is replaced by Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, marking an end to Mahathir's 22 years in power.

More recently, the 2003 Invasion of Iraq caused additional friction between the two countries ; Mahathir was highly critical of President George W. Bush for acting without a United Nations mandate.

A 2003 house subcommittee hearing ( Serial No. 108 – 21 ) on US policy towards South East Asia sums it up as " Despite sometimes blunt and intemperate public remarks by Prime Minister Mahathir, U. S .- Malaysian cooperation has a solid record in areas as diverse as education, trade, military relations, and counter-terrorism.

Abdullah went on to succeed Mahathir as Prime Minister in 2003.

After Mahathir stepped down as President of UMNO in 2003, he was replaced by his designated successor, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who by virtue of his new position also became Prime Minister of Malaysia.

* Somun, Hajrudin ; Somun-Krupalija, Lejla, Mahathir, the Secret of the Malaysian Success, published by Pelanduk Publications, 2003, ISBN 967-978-879-2

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad commented on the achievement in a May 2003 Bernama News Agency article, claiming that " the PETRONAS LNG complex now serves as another shining example of a vision realized of a national aspiration, transformed into reality by the same belief among Malaysians that ' we can do it.

In 2003, she was conferred the highest honorary title of Tun along with her husband, Dr Mahathir, by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( King ) of Malaysia.

It was opened in October 2003 by the then Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad.

Mahathir would serve for 22 years, retiring in 2003.

Foster last spoke in the Lords in 2003 before his resignation in 2010.

John Morgan spoke at the ICM on the Poincaré conjecture on August 24, 2006, declaring that " in 2003, Perelman solved the Poincaré Conjecture.

In 2003 she attended a Women and Disability Conference where she spoke about becoming a parent and motherhood.

He spoke against the war at the February 2003 protest in London organised by the Stop the War Coalition, attended by over 1 million people.

In February 2003, in the run up to the war, he spoke out about " politicians with so many different agendas, spin and bluff and throwing smoke in the air and I have to say even lies ... so often that we are not sure what we are actually listening to now ".

" Collins ' books are: " DIETAS Y RECETAS DE MARÍA ANTONIETA " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2001 ) " QUIEN DIJO QUE NO SE PUEDE " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2002 ) " CUANDO EL MONSTRUO DESPIERTA " ( Grijalbo / Random House 2003 ) spoke about domestic violence.

In March 2003 Mrs. Jessie and other victims of the Eugenics Board spoke out against the atrocities committed to the Eugenics Study Committee.

In Straddling the Fence ( 2003 ), he visited the West Bank and spoke to Israelis and Palestinians about the Israeli West Bank barrier and its impact on their lives.

In 2003, he addressed a rally in central London called by the Islamic al-Muhajiroun, where members spoke of their support for Islamist goals like the creation of a new Islamic caliphate and destroying the Western-backed Middle Eastern regimes.

Throughout her life Simmons spoke out publicly about her own struggle with addiction, and in 2003 became the patron of the UK drugs and human rights charity Release.

During its existence the JMIP forged strong links with the Scottish Socialist Party, and Tommy Sheridan spoke at its Summer Gathering in August 2003.

* ( 23 July 2003 )-British Prime Minister Tony Blair spoke at a British Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Hong Kong, commending the Sino-British Joint Declaration as being responsible for the peaceful nature of the demonstrations against the Article 23 legislation.

At oral argument on March 26, 2003, Paul M. Smith, an experienced litigator who had argued eight cases before the Supreme Court, spoke on behalf of the plaintiffs.

Also in 2003, U. S. President George W. Bush spoke on the subject.

In 2003, Gore spoke at the " Erasing the Stigma Awards " about her experience with depression after her son, Al Gore III, was hit by a car when he was a young child.

In her maiden speech when first elected as an MP in 2003, Teather spoke about her opposition to tuition fees:

She graduated from St. George's High School, Montreal in 2003 and spoke at the graduation ceremony.

On 7 October 2003 Kolingba attended the conference and spoke to the delegates, publicly asking for forgiveness for the excesses committed during his rule.

The BBC adjudication criticised Ellman and said: " It may well be that Mrs Ellman had in mind instances which dated back to 2003 or earlier, but she spoke in the present tense, and in terms which gave the impression that the use of child suicide-bombers by Hamas was a key consideration in the current situation.

One of 13 Conservative MPs who spoke against and voted against decision to invade Iraq ( 18 March 2003 ) and the way the re-construction progressed.

Dr. Kirill Pankratov, in a 2003 letter to the Johnson's Russia List, spoke against Satter's and Putley's theory.

In her memoir Until the Final Hour, published in English translation in 2003, one of Hitler's secretaries, Traudl Junge ( née Humps ), writes that in late 1943 or early 1944, Hitler spoke repeatedly of the possibility of a devastating bomber attack on the Wolfsschanze by the Western Allies.

When Natalie Maines, lead singer of the Dixie Chicks, made negative comments about George W. Bush and publicly spoke out against the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, boycotts by country music radio stations and death threats hindered the band's continued success.

Current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke sympathetically as a Governor in 2003 of the inflation targeting approach.

He also served as chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement from October 2003 until September 2006.

India, China, Indonesia, and many other nations formed the Non-Aligned Movement, and Yugoslavia pursued a largely independent course from Moscow from 1961 until its dissolution in 2003.

In her 2003 book, Un cri dans le silence (" A Scream in the Silence "), she warned of an “ Islamicization of France ”, and said of Muslim immigration: In May 2003 the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship between Peoples ( MRAP ) announced they would sue Bardot for the comments.

A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, Island Press, Revised Edition, 2003, ISBN 1-55963-437-5

* Aronowitz, Stanley, How Class Works: Power and Social Movement, Yale University Press, 2003.

In early 2003, a different rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia, emerged in the south.

* October 19 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, founder of the Swadhyay Movement ( d. 2003 )

It has been used in many nonviolent resistance movements in India ( Gandhi's campaigns for independence from the British Empire ), in Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution and in East Germany to oust their communist governments, in South Africa in the fight against apartheid, in the American Civil Rights Movement, in the Singing Revolution to bring independence to the Baltic countries from the Soviet Union, recently with the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine, among other various movements worldwide.

* A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America by Elinor Langer ( Metropolitan Books, 2003, ISBN 0-8050-5098-1 )

Between 1998 and 2003, the Ugandan army was involved in the Second Congo War in the renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo and the government continues to support rebel groups such as the Movement for the Liberation of Congo and some factions of the Rally for Congolese Democracy.

* Workman, Dave P. Peta Files: The Dark Side of the Animal Rights Movement, Merril Press, 2003.

In September 2003, four Chilean defendants were retried and convicted of membership in the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement and participation in an attack on the Peru – North American Cultural Institute and a kidnapping-murder in 1993.

The 2004 meeting also saw the convening of the General Assembly of the Global Anti-War Movement, an idea that originated from the Asian Social Forum in November 2003, and broadly coalesced in response to the invasion of Iraq by the United States in 2003.

* America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940 – 1941 presentation to The New York Military Affairs Symposium in 2003

Levy, Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland, Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 2003

Following the first three events under the name Detroit Electronic Music Festival ( 2000 – 2002 ) were Movement ( 2003 – 2004 ), Fuse-In ( 2005 ) and currently, Movement: Detroit's Electronic Music Festival ( 2006 – present ), with each name change reflecting shifts in festival management.

* ISM at the crossroads: the evolution of the International Solidarity Movement (. pdf ), C. Seitz, Journal of Palestine Studies 22, 4 ( Summer 2003 ), 50-62.

In 2003, the California Institute of Integral Studies recognized Z's contribution to the women's spirituality movement, declaring her a foremother of the Women's Spirituality Movement.

China Internet Weekly and Sina. com named him as one of the " 2003 China New Economy People ", and in the same year received the China Open Source Movement Leadership Award by CCID Consulting and the China Software Industry Association.

VLD most recently formed the Federal Government ( the so-called purple governments from June 2003 through 2007 with the Flemish sp. a-Spirit cartel, the Francophone Socialist Party ( PS ) and the Francophone Reformist Movement ( MR ).

America First: the Anti-War Movement, Charles Lindbergh and the Second World War, 1940-1941 ; presentation to The New York Military Affairs Symposium in 2003

This presidency was not well received by all groups however, and in 2003, members of the Krahn tribe founded a rebel group, the Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( MODEL ), as a means of fighting a war against Taylor.

A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 ( 2003