2006 in Malaysia
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'''2006 in Malaysia'''
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'''49 years of the nationhood'''
[[Image: MRR2.jpg|thumb|200px|The congestion at Kepong Flyover slip roads when the flyover is closed to the traffic]]
[[Image:Tv9logo.jpg|100px|thumb|right|[[TV9]] logo.]]
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[[Image:Flag of the Federal Territory - Malaysia.png|230px|thumb|right|The new [[Flag of Federal Territory|unified Federal Territory flag]].]]
[[Image:HazyKlFromPNBDarbyParkHafiz.jpg|thumb|right|200px|The business district of Kuala Lumpur in the evening of [[September 29]], [[2006]] during [[2006 Southeast Asian haze]]. [[Menara Kuala Lumpur]] was barely visible. The average API for that day was in between 70 and 80.]]
[[Image:MEASAT-3 Boeing 601.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Image of MEASAT-3 orbiting over Malaysia]]
[[Image:Kt flood.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Kota Tinggi]] town during [[2006 Malaysian floods|2006 flash floods]].]]
==Incumbents==
===Federal level===
*[[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]]:
**[[Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin]] (until [[12 December]])
**[[Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin]] (from [[13 December]])
*[[Raja Permaisuri Agong]]:
**[[Tuanku Fauziah]] (until [[12 December]])
**[[Sultanah Nur Zahirah]] (from [[13 December]])
*[[Prime Minister of Malaysia|Prime Minister]]: [[Abdullah Ahmad Badawi|Dato' Sri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi]]
*[[Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia|Deputy Prime Minister]]: [[Najib Tun Razak|Dato' Sri Najib Tun Razak]]
===State level===
*[[Sultan of Johor]]: [[Sultan Iskandar]]
*[[Sultan]] of [[Kedah]]: [[Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah]] (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
*[[Sultan]] of [[Kelantan]]: [[Sultan Yahya Petra]]
*[[Raja]] of [[Perlis]]: [[Tuanku Syed Faizuddin]] (Regent until [[12 December]])
*[[Sultan of Perak]]: [[Sultan Azlan Shah]]
*[[Sultan]] of [[Pahang]]: [[Sultan Ahmad Shah]]
*[[Sultan of Selangor]]: [[Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah]]
*[[Sultan]] of [[Terengganu]]: [[Tengku Muhammad Ismail]] (Regent from [[13 December]])
*[[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 Khalil Yaakob]]
*[[Yang di-Pertua Negeri]] (Governor) of [[Sarawak]]: [[Tun Abang Mohammad Salahuddin]]
*[[Yang di-Pertua Negeri]] (Governor) of [[Sabah]]: [[Tun Ahmad Shah Abdullah]]
==Events==
===January===
===February===
*[[4 February]] - The Kepong Flyover on the [[Kuala Lumpur Middle Ring Road 2]] (MRR2) is closed to traffic for repairing works and reopened to traffic on [[8 December]] [[2006]].
===March===
*[[2 March]] - [[Shah Alam]], [[Selangor]]'s state capital was hit by massive flash floods.
*[[11 March]] - The [[Low Cost Carrier Terminal]] (LCCT) at [[Kuala Lumpur International Airport]] (KLIA) in [[Sepang]], [[Selangor]]. Malaysia's first budget air terminal is officially opened.
===April===
*[[1 April]] - The [[Ninth Malaysia Plan]] (2006-2010) was launched.
*[[12 April]] - Construction of the new [[Southern Integrated Gateway|Tanjung Puteri road bridge]] replacing the Malaysian side of [[Johor Causeway|causeway]] is canceled.
*[[22 April]] - [[TV9 (Malaysia)|TV9]], Malaysia's sixth [[free-to-air]] station owned by [[Media Prima Berhad|Media Prima]] was launched, replacing [[Channel 9 (Malaysia)|Channel 9]] which ceased transmissions in [[2005]].
*[[23 April]] - [[Ghafar Baba|Tun Ghafar Baba]], former deputy prime minister dies. He was laid to rest at [[Makam Pahlawan]], near [[Masjid Negara]], [[Kuala Lumpur]].
===May===
*[[31 May]] - Four people were killed in the [[2006 Kampung Pasir landslides|landslides]] at Kampung Pasir, Ulu Klang, Selangor.
*[[17 May]] - [[Umar Bin Abd Aziz]], the first Malaysian to play for [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal FC]] at [[2006 UEFA Champions League Final|2006 UEFA Champions League Final]] versus [[Barcelona F.C.|Barcelona FC]]. He was 13 years old then.Barcelona won 2-1. He is the first and youngest to play at [[Premier League|Barclays Premiership]], thus set two records at [[Malaysian Book of Records]]. Currently he is schooling at class 3P7, [[SMK Cochrane|SMK Cochrane Perkasa]], resigned from Arsenal FC and played for his school soccer team.
===June===
*[[20 June]] - [[Petaling Jaya]] achieved city status.
===July===
*[[30 July]] - 11 passengers were killed in the [[2006 Nibong Tebal bus crash]] on the [[North-South Expressway, Malaysia|North-South Expressway]] near [[Jawi Interchange]], [[Penang]].
*[[30 July]] - [[Johor Bahru]] become as the second metropolitan city after [[Kuala Lumpur]]. The [[South Johor Economic Region]] (SJER) was established.
*[[August]] - The Malaysian federal government plans to build the [[Penang Second Bridge]] in the [[Ninth Malaysia Plan]].
===August===
*[[12 August]] - The official flag and anthem for [[Federal Territory]] was launched.
*[[21 August]] - Malaysian pop singer [[Siti Nurhaliza]] marries Datuk Khalid Mohd Jiwa (Datuk K).
===September===
*[[7 September]] - The body remains of two 19th century Malay warriors [[Kota Ngah Ibrahim|Ngah Ibrahim]] and [[Laksamana Mohammad Amin Alang Duakap]] were brought back from [[Singapore]] to [[Perak]].
*[[22 September]] - [[Suki (Low Sook Yee)|Suki]] wins [[One in a Million (TV series)|One in A Million]], a popular singing competition which offers [[Malaysian Ringgit|RM]] 1,000,000.
*[[August]]-[[October]] - The [[2006 Southeast Asian haze]]. Malaysia was also affected in this phenomenon.
===October===
*[[October]] - [[Mongolia]]n model, [[Altantuya Shaaribuu]] was murdered in [[Shah Alam]], [[Selangor]].
*[[27 October]] - [[Train wreck|A six-coach LRT train which came in from Ampang overshoots the end of the elevated tracks at Sentul Timur station]], resulting in the front half of the first coach dangling in the air about 25m above the ground.
===November===
*[[November]] - Heavy showers hit [[Peninsular Malaysia]] continuously every day for several weeks. This was unusually heavy even for the Malaysian rainy season.
*[[4 November]] - The [[South Johor Economic Region]] (SJER) was officially named as '''Iskandar Development Region'''
*[[7 November]] - The [[Bursa Malaysia|KLCI]] passes the 1,000 mark hurdle. It was the first time since [[2000]] that the KLCI has ever done so.
*[[12 November]] - The groundbreaking ceremony for the new [[Penang Second Bridge]] in [[Penang]].
*[[20 November]] - A [[microchips]] worth millions of ringgit were stolen from the Air Cargo Complex in [[Batu Maung]], [[Penang]].
===December===
*[[7 December]] - The [[Klang Valley]] metropolitan area has given its [[Multimedia Super Corridor]] (MSC) status area by the Prime Minister [[Abdullah Ahmad Badawi]].
*[[7 December]] - "[[Cicak Man]]", the famous super hero film in Malaysia was now showing at cinema for the first time.
*[[12 December]] - [[Measat 3|MEASAT III]] is launched by [[Proton rocket]] from [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], [[Kazakhstan]].
*[[13 December]] - [[Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin]] of [[Terengganu]] replaces [[Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin]] as the 13th [[Yang di-Pertuan Agong]].
*[[19 December]] - Several parts of [[Johor]], [[Malacca]] and [[Pahang]] including [[Johor Bahru]], [[Skudai]], [[Segamat]], [[Jasin]] and [[Kota Tinggi]] were hit by [[2006 Malaysian floods|flash floods]].
*[[21 December]] - The controversial issues about the demolition of the [[Bok House]] as the heritage building.
==National Day==
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===Main theme===
'''Keranamu Malaysia''' (Misi Nasional Penjana Wawasan)
===National Day Parade===
*[[Kuching]], [[Sarawak]]
==Sports==
*KL06 [[FESPIC]] Games
==Births==
*[[Muhammad Naufal Firdaus bin Shahrul Nizam]] — Malaysian- Bandar Setia Alam
==Deaths==
*[[Rosiah Chik]] — Malay singer
*[[Fadzil Ahmad]] — King of Gambus Malaysia
*[[S. Jibeng]] — Malay singer
*[[R. Letchumanan]] — Malaysian strongest man
*[[Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin Zakaria]] — Former Auditor-General
*[[Dato' Dr S.K. Dharmalingam]] — First oncologist and president of the [[National Cancer Society Malaysia]] (NCSM)
*[[Tun Abdullah Salleh]] — Former Secretary Chief and founder of the [[Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia]] (UKM)
*[[Puan Sri Rosaline Yeoh]] — Former model, Hong Kong television personality and wife of the [[YTL Corporation]] chairman Tan Sri [[Francis Yeoh]]
*[[Hani Mohsin]] — Celebrity and the host of the TV gameshow [[Wheel of Fortune in different countries|Wheel of Fortune]] Malaysia version ''Roda Impian''
*[[Rashid Maidin]] — Senior leader of the [[Communist Party of Malaya]] (CPM)
*[[Ven. K Sri Dhammananda]] formerly known as Samuel Dass — Malaysian Buddhist chief monk
*[[Tan Sri Dr B.C. Sekhtar]] — Rubber research icon
*[[Khir Johari|Tan Sri Mohamed Khir Johari]] — Former [[Ministry of Education (Malaysia)|Minister of Education]]
*[[Norsehah Abu Bakar]] (Seha) — Host of the music TV show ''Muzik TV''
*[[Ali Khan Shamsudin]] — Malaysian "Snake King"
*[[Tengku Paris Tengku Razlan]] — state assemblymen for [[Batu Talam]], [[Pahang]].
== See also ==
* [[2006]]
* [[2005 in Malaysia]] | [[2007 in Malaysia]]
* [[History of Malaysia]]
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