Before he was appointed to the post, he served as the Malaysia's Assistant High Commissioner in Madras from 1963 to 1964, Second Secretary of Malaysia's Embassy in Paris in between 1966 and 1968, the Counsellor in the Malaysian High Commission in London from 1970 until 1972 and the Chargé d ' affaires in Vientiane from 1974 until 1976.

Malaysia's lone cyclist in Athens managed to make the final in the keirin, but was relegated by the race officials, and finished 6th of 6 riders.

A brainchild of Malaysia's former Prime Minister, Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, LIMA series of exhibition has proven to be an excellent platform for aerospace manufacturers and related industries to display and promote the latest aerospace technology to senior Government officials, both civil and military and leaders of industries from Malaysia as well as the Asia Pacific region.

In August 2007, Branson announced that he bought a 20 percent stake in Malaysia's AirAsia X.

On 2 May 2009, Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak announced the government ’ s plan to develop a New Economic Model that will speed Malaysia's transition to a high income country.

On 6 September 1974, Malaysia's then prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, announced the appointment of Razaleigh as Chairman and Chief Executive of Petronas ( Petroleum Nasional Berhad ).

On 6 September 1974, Malaysia's then prime minister, Tun Abdul Razak, announced the appointment of Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah as Chairman and Chief Executive of PETRONAS.

However, partly due to massive street protests involving the public and politicians from both sides which portrayed the ISA as draconian and unnecessary in view of Malaysia's progress to " developed nation " status, on 15 September 2011, Prime Minister Najib Razak announced that The Internal Security Act will be abolished.

The policies caused Malaysia's economy to rebound by 2002, but brought disagreement between Mahathir and his deputy, Anwar Ibrahim, who backed the IMF policies.

Malaysia's government has intensified efforts on March 6, 2008 to portray opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim as a political turncoat, days ahead of Malaysian general election, 2008 on March 8, 2008 that will determine whether he poses a legitimate threat to the ruling coalition.

Much of the credit for Malaysia's economic development in the 1990s went to Anwar Ibrahim, appointed by Mahathir as Finance Minister in 1991.

As Mahathir took the reins of Malaysia's economic policy over the coming months, Anwar was increasingly sidelined.

Malaysia's government has intensified efforts on 6 March to portray opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim as a political turncoat, days ahead of Malaysian general election, 2008 on 8 March that would determine whether he poses a legitimate threat to the ruling coalition.

Malaysia's government and ruling coalition declared defeat in a landslide victory in by-election by Anwar Ibrahim.

He is one of Malaysia's most prominent lawyers, and has taken up numerous high-profile cases, including drug trafficking charges against foreign nationals, and sodomy accusations against former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.

The newspaper had doctored a photograph of Malaysia's ruling party to remove Anwar Ibrahim, who had recently been imprisoned for corruption.

Sin Chew Jit Poh had doctored a photograph of Malaysia's ruling party to remove Anwar Ibrahim, who had recently been imprisoned for corruption.

Razak stood in and won a seat in Malaysia's first general elections in July 1955 and was appointed as the Education Minister.

** sixth studio album Ku Mohon is named Best Pop Album and its title track won Song Of The Year at Malaysia's Anugerah Industri Muzik

In addition, Maybank won for the second year Malaysia's Most Valuable Brand ( worth RM9. 3 billion ), and Deal of the Year-Insolvency & Restructuring Deal of the Year at the 2008 ALB SE Asia Law Awards.

2004 Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia won the men's singles over China's Lin Dan, while Peter Gade of Denmark and Malaysia's Lee Chong Wei received bronze medals.

In the late 1990s, Malaysia was shaken by the Asian financial crisis, which damaged Malaysia's assembly line based economy.

The presence of British and other Commonwealth troops were crucial to Malaysia's security during the Malayan Emergency ( 1948 – 1960 ) and the Indonesian Confrontation ( 1962 – 1966 ), which was sparked by Malaya's merger with the British colonies of Singapore, Sarawak and North Borneo to form Malaysia in 1963.

Many of Malaysia's squatters live on land owned by Keretapi Tanah Melayu as well as at construction sites.

Produced by NSK Productions ( Malaysia ), the series was shot in 2009 and currently airs on Malaysia's local cable channel, ASTRO Citra 131.

Joy's request to change the religion listed on her MyKad was denied by Malaysia's Supreme Court in 2007.

The building was officially opened by the Prime Minister of Malaysia's Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad on 1 August 1999.

On 28 March 2002, his Seni Silat Malaysia was recognised by the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, the Ministry of Education and PESAKA as Malaysia's national silat.

Malaysia's pop music scene developed from traditional asli ( pure ) music popularized in the 1920s and 1930s by Bangsawan troupes.

Mahathir's non-Malay ancestry is a feature shared by Malaysia's six prime ministers.

The press backed Mahathir and, in an unprecedented development, started airing allegations of misconduct by members of Malaysia's royal families.

Ipoh has Malaysia's first velodrome, Velodrom Rakyat ( The People's Velodrome ), costing RM 3. 25 million ; funds were raised in a country-wide donation drive ( led by Tan Sri Darshan Singh Gill ).

In 2005, The Heritage Foundation was criticized by Thomas Edsall in The Washington Post for softening its criticism of Malaysia following a business relationship between Heritage's president and Malaysia's then-prime minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Unlike Malaysia's eight other Royal Malay states, the Ruler of Negeri Sembilan is elected to his office by the territorial chiefs of the state.

MOL Global is funded by one of Malaysia's successful businessmen, Tan Sri Vincent Tan, Chairman and Chief Executive of Berjaya Corporation Berhad.

From the very beginning, the alliance had been strained by PAS's unwillingness to publicly renounce its aim of making Malaysia an Islamic state, a position that was anathema to Malaysia's 45 % non-Muslim minority, although a temporary compromise was achieved when PAS did not include the issue in the joint manifesto.

Through its substantial holding of companies such as Huaren Holdings, MCA also controls five other significant media press companies, i. e., The Star, being Malaysia's best-selling English language newspaper Sin Chew Jit Poh, Nanyang Siang Pau, and China Press, being three of the best-selling Chinese newspapers in Kuala Lumpur and Central Region of West Malaysia ; and Guang Ming Daily being a smaller press in northern West Malaysia as the owner of these four presses are owned by media tycoon Tiong Hiew King where his family members are the major party of the ruling coalition in Sarawak.

The Malay Dilemma is a controversial book written by Mahathir bin Mohamad in 1970, 11 years before he became Malaysia's 4th Prime Minister.

Greece has for years experienced a mass exodus of " educational immigrants " to other countries ' Higher Education institutions, where they move to study ; this creates a chronic problem for Greece, in terms of loss of capital as well as human resources, since many of those students opt to seek employment in the countries they studied, after getting their degrees ( it is characteristic Greece is by far the leading country in the world in terms of students abroad as a percentage of the general population, with 5250 students per million, compared to second Malaysia's 1780 students per million inhabitants ).

After retirement, both received Malaysia's most senior federal title Tun, conferred by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

His challenge was to respond to Malaysia's newly proclaimed aspiration to become a fully developed nation by the year 2020.

The International Institute for Management Development responded to these and other reforms by increasing Malaysia's ranking to the 10th most competitive economy in the world in 2010 from 18th in 2009.