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Following the format of the highly successful Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode features a railway journey in south-east Asia using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World (1913) [a] as a historical reference, in order to consider how ...
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 ]
[2] [3] Caused primarily by slash-and-burn land clearing, the problem flares up every dry season to varying degrees [4] and generally is worst between July and October and during El Niño events. [5] Transboundary haze in Southeast Asia has been recorded since 1972 [ 6 ] with the 1997 and 2015 events being particularly severe.
An Idiot Abroad is a travel documentary television series that was originally broadcast on Sky1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was created by and features Karl Pilkington and his former radio show colleagues Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. As of 21 December 2012, 20 episodes of An Idiot Abroad had aired over three series.
2021–2022 Malaysian floods – In late 2021 and early 2022, Klang Valley (Port Klang, Klang, Setia Alam, Puncak Alam, Kota Kemuning, Shah Alam, Kuala Lumpur, Ampang, Cheras, Hulu Langat, Puchong, Dengkil) hit by a worst flash floods ever seen in 50 years [4] due to Tropical Depression 29W. Other reports include Lubok Cina, Kuantan, Bentong ...
[11] [12] [13] It has also been historically compared with the 1971 Kuala Lumpur floods. [14] It is the deadliest tropical cyclone-related disaster to hit Malaysia since Tropical Storm Greg of 1996, which killed 238 people and left 102 more missing. [15] Record-high precipitations were measured at weather stations at Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. [16]
Shortly after the attack, the deputy police chief of Selangor state, Abdul Rahim Jaafar, ruled out the possibility of it being a terrorist attack, [8] and said the motive was business rivalry, revenge, or a targeted killing since a similar attack happened in 2014 when a man was killed and 13 others injured after a grenade exploded outside a pub in Kuala Lumpur that was linked to gambling kingpin.
Jalan Tun Perak, formerly Jalan Mountbatten (1961–1981) Mountbatten Road (1946–1961) and Java Street (1889–1946), is a major road located in the historic centre of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was a major commercial street of early Kuala Lumpur, and is now the location of a few financial institutions.