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Puchong
Puchong is a major town and a parliamentary constituency in the Petaling District, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Bordering Kuala Lumpur, it is part of the Greater Kuala Lumpur area. It is bordered by Petaling Jaya in the north, Subang Jaya in the west, Cyberjaya and Putrajaya in the south, and Seri Kembangan in the east. Once a small settlement consisting of the tin mining and rubber tapping communities, Puchong has evolved into one of Klang Valley's most vibrant and bustling townships. While parts of Puchong have developed with residents who commute and work in both urban and suburban areas, many pockets have yet to fully mature, allowing a greater sprawl of urban dwellers to seek inhabitancy. This demand in living space is largely driven by the commute distance to Kuala Lumpur City Centre and sharp increase in property prices across other parts of the Kuala Lumpur (KL) metropolitan area. History The first settlers of the area were the Orang Asli community in a vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puchong (federal Constituency)
Puchong is a federal constituency in Petaling District and Hulu Langat District, Selangor, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat The Dewan Rakyat (; Jawi script, Jawi: ), is the lower house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Malaysia, Parliament which is the federal legislature of Malaysia. The chamber and its powers are established by Article 44 of the Constitu ... from 1986 to 1995, from 2004 to present. The federal constituency was created in the 1984 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system. Demographics https://live.chinapress.com.my/ge15/2023election/Selangor History It was abolished in 1995 when it was redistributed. It was re-created in 2003. Polling districts According to the gazette issued on 18 July 2023, the Puchong constituency has a total of 35 polling districts. Representation history State constituency Current state assembly members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subang Jaya
Subang Jaya is a city in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. It comprises the southern third district of Petaling. It consists of the neighbourhoods from SS12 to SS19, UEP Subang Jaya (USJ), Putra Heights, Batu Tiga as well as PJS7, PJS9 and PJS11 of Bandar Sunway, the latter of which are partially jurisdictional within Petaling Jaya under the MBPJ. The city is governed by Subang Jaya City Council (MBSJ), which also governs other areas of the Petaling district, such as Puchong and Seri Kembangan. According to Subang Jaya City Council, Subang Jaya has a population of 968,930 in 2020, which makes it the sixth largest city in Malaysia by population. History The site was formerly a rubber plantation called Seafield Estate. Originally part of Klang District, it would later be handed over by the municipality of Petaling Jaya. Developed by Sime UEP Properties Berhad, the property development arm of the Malaysian conglomerate Sime Darby, construction of Subang Jaya b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Selangor
Selangor ( ; ), also known by the Arabic language, Arabic honorific Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity", is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south, and the Strait of Malacca to the west. Selangor surrounds the Wilayah Persekutuan, federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were previously part of it. Selangor has diverse tropical rainforests and an equatorial climate. The state's mountain ranges belong to the Titiwangsa Mountains, which is part of the Tenasserim Hills that covers southern Myanmar, southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia, with Mount Semangkok as the highest point in the state. The state capital of Selangor is Shah Alam, and its royal capital is Klang (city), Klang, Kajang is the largest municipality by total metropolitan population and Petaling Jaya is the largest municipality by total population within the cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandar Kinrara
Bandar Kinrara is a township in Puchong, Selangor, Malaysia. The Ayer Hitam Forest Reserve is situated to its south. Island & Peninsular Berhad commenced the township development under Perumahan Kinrara Berhad in 1991. The only link road to the development then was via Jalan Puchong before entering Kinrara Army Camp road. Bandar Kinrara 1 (BK 1) was constructed for low-cost terrace houses before Bandar Kinrara 2 (BK 2) double storey terraces begun construction. The construction of Bukit Jalil Highway (Federal route 217) helped Bandar Kinrara to expand the development phase on both side of the highway. An underpass linked both sides of the development. Background The construction of Kinrara began in 1991 and was developed by Perumahan Kinrara Berhad (A member of I&P Group Sdn Berhad) It comprises a land area of . It is used to be a rubber estate known as Kinrara Estate. Bandar Kinrara is divided into sections BK 1–9. BK 1-3 are located on the northern side of the Bukit Jalil Highw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petaling District
The Petaling District is a district located in the heart of Selangor in Malaysia. Petaling is not to be confused with the city of Petaling Jaya located in it, nor the ''mukim'' of Petaling under Subang Jaya City. The district office is located in Subang, Selangor, Subang. The district of Petaling was established on 1 February 1974, the same day Kuala Lumpur was declared a Federal Territories (Malaysia), Federal Territory. This district is located in the middle of the Klang Valley adjacent to the capital and thus has experienced tremendous urbanisation. Some of the original forests remain in the Bukit Cherakah Forest Reserve (including the National Botanic Gardens Shah Alam, National Botanic Gardens), Kota Damansara Community Forest Park and Bukit Gasing. During the 1991 census, it recorded 633,165 people. The official 2010 census recorded the population of Petaling as 1,660,869 people, excluding foreigners. Petaling is 484.32 km2 in area. The urban centres are divided into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greater Kuala Lumpur
Greater Kuala Lumpur (Malay language, Malay: ''Kuala Lumpur Raya'') is the geographical term that determines the boundaries of metropolitan Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Though similar to the term "Klang Valley", there remains a variation between the two. Ranked as the List of largest cities#List, 30th-largest in Asia, it covers a total land size of 7143.44 Square kilometre, km2. History Pre-1974 Kuala Lumpur has been declared the capital city of Federated Malay States in 1896, and when the group of states changes and expands to Federation of Malaya and later Malaysia, the town status has been kept as such. However, Kuala Lumpur itself is part of the larger Kuala Lumpur district of Selangor, which area also includes Ampang, Selangor, Ampang, Batu Caves, Gombak, Ulu Klang, Petaling Jaya, Puchong and Sungai Buloh. Until 1974, the city remains as part of Selangor. Developments has been ongoing out of the city border long before it as Petaling Jaya was made a new township just beside ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seri Kembangan
Seri Kembangan, also known as Serdang, formerly known as Serdang New Village, is a town located in Petaling District, Selangor, Malaysia. It is located in between Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. The town is now a considerable city in size. It is located near the northern end of the North–South Expressway Southern Route, PLUS Expressway Southern Route . History Seri Kembangan was established as the Serdang New Village in 1950 when the British moved Malaysian Chinese villagers living around Sungai Besi to a centralised location due to the Communist Party of Malaya, Communist threat during the Malayan Emergency as part of the Briggs Plan. In its early days, the village had 50 houses and all were built from scratch because the British only provided empty plots of land. The area was close to rubber estates and the jungle posed dangers of a different kind. Most of the 15,000 inhabitants earned meagre incomes as mining workers and rubber tappers. At one point, the Seri Kembangan New Vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putrajaya
Putrajaya (), officially the Federal Territory of Putrajaya (), is the administrative centre of Malaysia. The Seat of government, seat of the Government of Malaysia, federal government of Malaysia was moved in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya because of overcrowding and congestion, whilst the seat of the judiciary of Malaysia was later moved to Putrajaya in 2003. Kuala Lumpur remains as Malaysia's national capital city per the Constitution of Malaysia, constitution and is still the seat of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, head of state (Yang di-Pertuan Agong) and the national legislature (Parliament of Malaysia), as well as being the country's commercial and financial centre. The establishment of Putrajaya was the idea of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. First thought of in the 1990s, Putrajaya was envisioned to be “a laboratory for a new form of electronic government" that would emphasize new adoption of, investment in internet, media, and digital communications. The developmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population of 2,075,600 . Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 8.8 million people as of 2024. It is among the fastest growing metropolitan regions in Southeast Asia, both in population and economic development. The city serves as the cultural, financial, tourism, political and economic centre of Malaysia. It is also home to the Parliament of Malaysia, Malaysian parliament (consisting of the Dewan Rakyat and the Dewan Negara) and the Istana Negara, Jalan Tuanku Abdul Halim, Istana Negara, the official residence of the King of Malaysia, monarch (''Yang di-Pertuan Agong''). Kuala Lumpur was first developed around 1857 as a town serving the tin mining, tin mines of the region, and important figures such as Ya ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petaling Jaya
Petaling Jaya (), colloquially referred to as "PJ", is a city in Petaling District, in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. Originally developed as a Satellite city, satellite township for Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, it is part of the Greater Kuala Lumpur area. Petaling Jaya was granted city status on 20 June 2006. It has an area of approximately . Petaling Jaya is surrounded by Kuala Lumpur to the east, Sungai Buloh to the north, Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor, and Subang Jaya to the west, and Bandar Kinrara (Puchong) to the south. History Under plans developed by Francis McWilliams, the city was developed during post-war British Malaya on a piece of rubber estate, the ''Effingham Estate'', around Old Klang Road to address the overpopulation of the capital Kuala Lumpur in the 1950s. Since 1952, PJ witnessed a dramatic growth in terms of population size and geographical importance. The development of Petaling Jaya commenced in 1952 with the construction of 800 ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flying Tiger Line Flight 66
Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 was a scheduled international cargo flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport via a stopover at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. On February 19, 1989, the FedEx-owned Boeing 747-249F-SCD crashed while on its final approach. The aircraft impacted a hillside above sea level and from Kuala Lumpur, resulting in all four occupants being killed. Aircraft and crew The aircraft, registered as N807FT, made its first flight on 1 November 1979, before being delivered new to Flying Tiger Line on 11 December 1979. Its manufacturer serial number was 21828 and its construction number was 408. At the time of the accident, it had flown over 9,000 flight cycles and 34,000 airframe hours. The crew consisted of Captain Francis "Frank" Halpin (59), First Officer John "Jack" Robinson (54), and Flight Engineer Ronald Penton (70). Leonard Sulewski (53), an aircraft mechanic, was also on board. Accident The aircraft was assigned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberjaya
Cyberjaya (a portmanteau of ''cyber'' and ''Putrajaya'') is a planned city with a science park as its core that forms part of Greater Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia. It is located in Sepang District, Selangor. Cyberjaya is adjacent to and developed along with Putrajaya, Malaysia's government seat. The city aspires to be known as the Silicon Valley of Malaysia. The official opening ceremony for Cyberjaya was held on 17 May 1997 by then-Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad. Many multinational companies and data centres are located in the city. History Until 1975, what is today Cyberjaya, Putrajaya and Dengkil (state constituency), Dengkil were under the administration of Hulu Langat, Hulu Langat (Kajang) district. On the site of today's Cyberjaya once stood an estate, ''Prang Besar'' (Great War). The idea of an Information technology, IT-themed city, Cyberjaya, arose out of a study by management consultancy McKinsey & Company, McKinsey for the Multimedia Super Corridor commissioned by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
