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Kuala Lumpur grew from a small settlement to become Malaysia's biggest city in the 20th century. Kuala Lumpur was only 0.65 km 2 in 1895, but it expanded to 20 km 2 in 1903, and by the time it became a municipality in 1948 it had expanded to 93 km 2, and then after independence to 243 km 2 in 1974 as a Federal Territory. [20]
On 15 February, Malaysian police arrested 28-year-old Vietnamese woman Đoàn Thị Hương at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in connection with the attack. [25] [21] Hương was identified through CCTV footage. [26] On 16 February, a 25-year-old Indonesian woman named Siti Aisyah was arrested and identified as the second female suspect. [27]
The 13 May incident was an episode of Sino-Malay sectarian violence that took place in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, on 13 May 1969.The riot occurred in the aftermath of the 1969 Malaysian general election, when opposition parties such as the Democratic Action Party and Gerakan made gains at the expense of the ruling coalition, the Alliance Party.
Kuala Lumpur, [a] officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, [b] and colloquially referred to as KL, is the capital city and a federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of 243 km 2 (94 sq mi) with a census population of 2,075,600 as of 2024 [update] . [ 8 ]
The watch supervisor at Kuala Lumpur ACC activated the Kuala Lumpur Aeronautical Rescue Coordination Centre (ARCC) at 05:30, more than four hours after communication was lost with Flight 370. [81] The ARCC is a command post at an Area Control Centre that coordinates search-and-rescue activities when an aircraft is lost.
Ethel Proudlock, née Charter, was a Eurasian who married William Proudlock, acting headmaster of the prestigious Victoria Institution for boys in Kuala Lumpur, at the age of 19 in 1907. Montage of historical maps of the Klang River, taken at the Pasar Seni MRT/LRT station.
19 February – Malaysia and Singapore agree to build the high-speed rail link between the city-state island republic and Kuala Lumpur. 20 February – The roof of the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium at Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, collapses again, the second incident since 2009. Four people are injured.
The Bersih 4.0 rally are held in major cities nationwide, namely Kuala Lumpur, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching. In Kuala Lumpur, more than 10,000 people took over major roads in the city kicking off a weekend of Bersih 4.0 rallies. In Kuching, nearly 10,000 people thronged the Song Kheng Khai field for the Bersih 4.0 Kuching event at evening.