2005 in Malaysia

2005 in Malaysia
48 years of the nationhood

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)

tate 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

ports

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