2005 in Malaysia

2005 in Malaysia
48 years of the nationhood

Severe haze affecting Ampang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in August 2005

Incumbents

Federal level

• Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
• Raja Permaisuri Agong: Tuanku Fauziah
• Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
• Deputy Prime Minister: Dato' Sri Najib Tun Razak (from 7 January)

State level

• Sultan of Johor: Sultan Iskandar
• Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
• Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya Petra
• Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Faizuddin (Regent)
• Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah
• Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
• Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah
• Sultan of Terengganu: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
• Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Jaafar
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Mohd Khalid Yaakob
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak: Tun Abang Mohammad Salahuddin
• Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Ahmad Shah Abdullah

Events

• 15 February - The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) (Malaysian Coast Guard) is founded.
• 1 April - Siti Nurhaliza held her concert in Royal Albert Hall, London for the first time.
• 20 May - Miri gained city status and became the second city of Sarawak
• June - A power blackout on northern peninsula Malaysia causes of the main cable transmission line grid near Serendah, Selangor, had broken down.
• July - Dr Judson Sakai anak Tagal, a Sarawak state assemblymen for Bakelalan, was killed in helicopter crash in Bakelalan, Sarawak.
• 10 July - The NKVE-Jalan Meru flyover (now Setia Alam Interchange) collapsed onto the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), killing two Bangladeshi workers and injuries to seven others.
• August - Mawi win the Akademi Fantasia Season 3 and become the Malaysian no.1 male singers.
• 9 August - Rakan Cop, Malaysian community police cops is launched.
• 10 August - The National Biofuel Policy is introduced.
• 11 August - Haze occurs in Klang Valley. A state of emergency was declared in Kuala Selangor and Port Klang.
• 27 August - Selangor was declared as the first developed state in Malaysia.
• 1 October - Kota Bharu was declared as the first Islamic city in Malaysia.
• 20 November - Endon Mahmood the wife of Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dies. Her body was laid to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Taman Selatan, Precinct 20, Putrajaya.
• 29 November – First Monsoon Cup international regatta held in Terengganu.
• 6 December – Kelantan's DUN Pengkalan Pasir by-election, Barisan Nasional (BN) won in this elections.
• 14 December - The 11th ASEAN Summit and East Asian Summit were held in Kuala Lumpur.

National Day

Main theme

Keranamu Malaysia (Theme of Educations)

National Day Parade

• Putrajaya

Sports

Births

Deaths

• Tan Sri Dr. Tan Chin Tuan — Former OCBC Bank (Malaysia) chairman (1966-1983)
• Tun Hamdan Sheikh Tahir — Penang state governor (Yang di-Pertua Negeri) (1989-2002)
• Haji Yusoff Rono — Survivors of the Bukit Kepong Incident 1950
• Saadiah — Malay actress
• Aziz Jaafar — Malay actor
• Bat Latiff — Malay actor and child actor
• Dato' Haji Sidek Abdullah Kamar — father of former Malaysian national badminton players.
• Noraini Hashim — Malay actress
• Ismail Din — Malay actor and comedian
• Datin Roqiyah Hanim — Tun Hussein Onn's eldest daughter
• Munir Sheikh Mahmud (Moon) — famous comedians in Jangan Ketawa TV sitcom series.
• Wan Abdul Aziz Wan Jaafar — state assemblymen for Pengkalan Pasir, Kelantan.
• Tan Sri Dr Noordin Sopiee — Executive Chairman of the Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS).

See also

• 2005
• 2004 in Malaysia | 2006 in Malaysia
• History of Malaysia

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