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Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of Johor is selected as Malaysia's 17th Yang di-Pertuan Agong by the nation's royalty, set to be inaugurated following the end of the current king's term on 31 January 2024.
2023-10-27

Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob announces that Kuala Lumpur will be placed under the movement control order from May 7 until May 20 due to the emergence of seventeen COVID-19 clusters over the past week.
2021-05-5

Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong Abdullah of Pahang declares a state of emergency in the country until August 1 amid an increase in COVID-19 cases, suspending parliament for the first time since 1969 for the remainder of the pandemic.
2021-01-12

Yang di-Pertuan Agong King Al-Sultan Abdullah rejects a proposal by embattled Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to declare a state of emergency to fight a surge of COVID-19 cases.
2020-10-25

Abdullah of Pahang is elected the 16th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
2019-01-31

Tens of thousands of people protest in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down amid an ongoing corruption scandal involving 1Malaysia Development Berhad.
2016-11-19

The foreign ministers of Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand meet in Kuala Lumpur to discuss people smuggling and the migrant crisis. Malaysia and Indonesia agree to accept asylum seekers providing that they can be resettled or repatriated within a year.
2015-05-20

The bodies and ashes of twenty Malaysian victims who died when the flight was shot down over Ukraine in July have been returned to Kuala Lumpur.
2014-08-22

Thousands of protestors gather at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur to begin protests against the Malaysian government's introduction of price hikes.
2013-12-31

The governments of Singapore and Malaysia announce plans to build a high-speed rail link between the city-state of Singapore and Kuala Lumpur by 2020.
2013-02-19