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The Yang di-Pertuan Agong ( lit.'He Who is Made Lord', [2] Jawi: يڠ دڤرتوان اݢوڠ ), also known as the Supreme Head of the Federation, the Paramount Ruler, or simply the Agong and also unofficially as the King of Malaysia, [3] is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia. The office was established in 1957, when ...
2020–2022. Perikatan Nasional. Tan Sri Dato' Haji Mahiaddin bin Md. Yasin [note 1] (born 15 May 1947), commonly known as Muhyiddin bin Mohd. Yassin ( Jawi: محيي الدين بن محمد ياسين; IPA: [muhjɪddɪn bɪn ˈmuɦɑmmæd jɑ̀ssɪn] ), is a Malaysian politician who served as the eighth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2020 to ...
Raja Permaisuri Agong in literal English is the "Supreme Queen". It is an archaic equivalent to Raja where the female is a Raja Permaisuri and "Agong" (or Agung in standard Malay) means 'supreme'. The term Agong is not translated, as in the Constitution of Malaysia. The Malay word permaisuri is derived from Sanskrit परमेश्वरी ...
Seven are hereditary monarchies based on agnatic primogeniture: Kedah, Kelantan, Johor, Perlis, Pahang, Selangor and Terengganu. In Perak, the throne rotates among three branches of the royal family loosely based on agnatic seniority. One state, Negeri Sembilan, is an elective monarchy; the ruler is elected from male members of the royal family ...
Abdullah, born as Tengku Abdullah ibni Tengku Ahmad Shah on 30 July 1959, at Istana Mangga Tunggal in Pekan, Pahang, is the eldest son of Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta'in Billah and Tengku Ampuan Afzan. He is the fourth child among eight siblings, with his eldest sibling being Tengku Meriam.
Tun Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi ( Jawi: عبد الله بن احمد بدوي, Malay pronunciation: [abdullah]; born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian retired politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. He was also the sixth president of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the largest political ...
Malaysia’s bureaucracy is one of the biggest in the world, with 1.7 million civil servants to a population of 32 million, a ratio of 4.5% compared with Singapore’s ratio of 1.5% civil servants to total population, Hong Kong’s 2.3% and Taiwan’s ratio of 2.3%. [3] Some critics have called for the civil service to be trimmed, arguing that ...
Ahmad Maslan. Datuk Seri Haji Ahmad bin Maslan ( Jawi: أحمد بن مصلان; born 30 April 1966) is a Malaysian politician who has served as the Deputy Minister of Works under Minister Alexander Nanta Linggi since December 2023 and previously served as the Deputy Minister of Finance I from December 2022 to December 2023 in the Unity ...