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22 unusual facts about Selangor


Cheras

Cheras, Selangor, a suburb that stretches from Kuala Lumpur to Kajang in Selangor, Malaysia

Damansara

Damansara, Selangor, a subdivision of the Petaling district, state of Selangor, Malaysia

Damansara, Kuala Lumpur

Damansara is a township in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which straddles the state border into Damansara, Petaling Jaya, Selangor.

Federated Malay States Railways

By 1900, an extension of the line to Port Swettenham was only completed the year before, and a branch line through Kuala Lumpur (stopping at Sultan Street), Pudoh and the mining town of Ampang was operating for use in the transport of tin from Ampang.

Herbert Christopher Robinson

He was based in Selangor from 1903 to 1926, making a return visit to England in 1920.

Klang Royal Town Mosque

Klang Royal Town Mosque or Masjid Bandar Diraja Mosque is a mosque in Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

Koe Yeet

She studied at Catholic High School in Form 5 and represents Selangor in tennis and ping pong.

Lanchester 6x4 Armoured Car

By 1939, most Lanchesters (13 Mk I, 1 Mk IA, 5 Mk II, 3 Mk IIA) were sent to the Far East and assigned to the Selangor and Perak battalions of Federated Malay States Volunteer Force, the Singapore Volunteer Corps, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force and the 2nd battalion of Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in Malaya.

Malaysia Airlines subsidiaries

Operating out of its hub in Penang, Firefly provides exclusive routes daily to Subang, Penang, Kuantan, Kuala Terengganu, Kota Bharu and Langkawi in Malaysia, and 4 times a week to Phuket and Koh Samui in Thailand.

Malaysian rock

One of the most noted underground indie-bands of all-time, The Matrix (metalcore/speed metal) or simply better known as (The 3 Mates) to their fans, which hails from Berkeley Garden of Klang, Selangor Darul Ehsan, played gigs all-over the Klang Valley during their earlier days & most of their inspirations came from metal bands especially from Metallica to the sultry Bon Jovi.

Mark Rudan

With the Australian league collapsing he again sought a move overseas, joining Public Bank FC (Selangor) in the new Malaysian Super League, where he won the defender of the year award helping his team achieve its best ever finish to a season in 2nd place.

Mohd Zin Mohamed

Mohd Zin was defeated as the Barisan Nasional candidate for the Sepang constituency in Selangor in the 13th Malaysian General Election on May 5th, 2013, by YB Hanipa Maidin of Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party.

MPH Group

Its bookstore chain, MPH Bookstores Sdn Bhd, headquartered in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, is among the largest in Malaysia after Popular.

Noh Omar

He is the former Minister for Agriculture and Agro-based Industry and the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Tanjong Karang constituency in Selangor.

Royal Selangor Club

The initial response by the club was to search for a new site in the surrounding area (including Jalan Duta, an area near the Houses of Parliament, an area near a polo club in Ampang, and Damansara) with little success.

Saiful Bukhari Azlan

The meetings were held in a privately owned condominium in Desa Damansara (Damansara Heights), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Selangor

Commercial radio stations available in Selangor include Era (103.3), Sinar FM (96.7), Melody FM (103.0), Hot FM (97.6), Suria FM (105.3), Best104 (104.1), Hitz.fm (92.9), Mix FM (94.5), Lite FM (105.7), Red FM (104.9), Fly FM (95.8), BFM (89.9), Capital FM (88.9), 988 (98.8), My FM (101.8), One FM (88.1), UFM 101.3, and THR (99.3).

Shafie Salleh

Shafie was also the Member of Parliament for the district of Kuala Langat, Selangor.

Sime Darby F.C.

For the 2011 season, Sime Darby F.C. played at the MBPJ Stadium in Kelana Jaya, Selangor.

Tan Koon Swan

In 1982 he cinched a landslide victory for the parliamentary seat in the opposition stronghold of Damansara.

Tengku Rethwan Tengku Mansor

Tengku Rethwan Tengku Mansor is a prominent Malaysian businessman who ventured into Selangor state politics.

Yap Pian Hon

Datuk Yap Pian Hon is one of the most senior Barisan Nasional leaders in the state of Selangor, Malaysia.


2010 Air Untuk Rakyat rally

The rally organiser, the Air Untuk Rakyat movement and federal opposition Pakatan Rakyat, had called the protest regarding the privatisation of water management in Selangor state which surrounds the capital, Kuala Lumpur and the federal government's bailout of SYABAS, a water distribution firm controlled by associate of the UMNO-led federal government crony Rozali Ismail.

Buletin Utama

TV3 it was moved at TV3 Kuala Lumpur Television Centre at No. 18 Jalan Bangsar in Kuala Lumpur, state of Wilayah Persekutuan to the present Central Television Stations at Ground Floor in Sri Pentas at No. 3 Persiaran Bandar Utama in Petaling Jaya, state of Selangor based in Klang Valley.

Charles Hutton Gregory

Gregory was consulting engineer of several major railway construction works, including those in Ceylon, Trinidad, Cape Colony, Perak and Selangor.

Damansara

Kota Damansara, a township in Sungai Buloh subdistrict of Petaling Jaya city, Petaling district, state of Selangor, Malaysia

Ernest Woodford Birch

Maybe it was his success, in 1890 he was requested by Sir William Maxwell to investigate the land system in Selangor, and he made two reports upon it.

Foo Kok Keong

Foo Kok Keong (born January 8, 1963 in Gombak, Selangor) is a former badminton star from Malaysia who rated among the world's best singles players from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s.

Football Association of Malaysia

While the Selangor FA was moving towards organised football, and inspiring other states in Malaya to follow suit, the battleship HMS Malaya visited the country in 1920.

Gombak LRT Station

Gombak (previously known as the Terminal PUTRA LRT station) is an LRT station in the district of Gombak, Selangor, Malaysia.

Hasan Mohamed Ali

In the 1999 general elections, Hasan contested two seats: the Sungai Burung state seat in Selangor and the Parit Buntar parliamentary seat in Perak, and won both.

Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur

The Japanese School of Kuala Lumpur (Japanese: クアラルンプール日本人学校, Kuararunpūru nihonjin gakkō) is an International School in Malaysia that is located in Saujana Golf and Country Club in Subang, Selangor near the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

Karak, Pahang

The Government has plans to build a massive RM2bil pipeline linking the Pahang River area to Selangor and the Klang Valley.

Kedah-class offshore patrol vessel

All ships of the class so far named were named after states in Peninsular Malaysia (Kedah, Pahang, Perak, Terengganu, Kelantan, and Selangor).

Kuala Selangor

Some township also lated in Southeast of Kuala Selangor which located between three district border, Klang, Gombak, Petaling which the township name is Puncak Alam.

Leftenan Adnan

The movie is about Adnan bin Saidi, a young Malay from Sungai Ramal in Kajang, Selangor who had joined the Malay Regiment of the British Colonial Forces just before the Second World War broke out in Asia.

Manipal Hospitals Klang

Manipal Hospitals Klang, formerly known as Arunamari Specialist Medical Centre, is a private medical facility located in the south of the royal town of Klang, Selangor, Malaysia.

Muhammad Shah of Selangor

By the end of his rule, Selangor was separated into five individual territories, namely Bernam, Kuala Selangor, Kelang, Langat and Lukut.

Please Give Me a Job!


After a discussion by six of Royal Selangor's directors, Juliet was selected to join their company while Justin, left without a job from the competition, was given a scholarship by SEGi to further his studies into the Masters level.

ProJET

ProJET was reported to have owned up to 40 stations, primarily in various portions of the Klang Valley, encompassing Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, and outlying states.

Raja Chulan

Having obtained his education from the Malacca High School and the Malay College Kuala Kangsar, he joined with the British, as well as with the Sultans of Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan and Pahang to form a federation, dubbed the Federated Malay States, on July 1, 1896, the nucleus around which the present-day Malaysia was eventually created.

Riduan Isamuddin

The three lived in a housing compound in Kampung Sungai Manggis, Banting, Selangor.

Rudie Ramli

Born in Selangor, Rudie with Mohd Fadzli Saari of Pahang was the first player from Malaysia who sign a contract to play in Germany.

Sagong Tasi

The defendants were the Federal government, the Selangor State government, the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) and contractor United Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM Group).

Sekolah Berasrama Penuh Integrasi Rawang

Sekolah Berasrama Penuh Integrasi Rawang (SEPINTAR) is a boarding school Sekolah Berasrama Penuh located in Rawang, Selangor in Malaysia.

Sekolah Menengah Sains Hulu Selangor

The school's goal, in line with that of the SBP's, is to achieve academic excellence, in both quantity and quality, in the Hulu Selangor district.

SGL Carbon

By opening further locations, e.g. the construction of the most state-of-the-art carbon and graphite hub in Banting/Selangor (Malaysia), where the foundations were laid at the end of March 2007, the company will further optimize service on a local basis.

Shah Alam Expressway

The Konsortium Expressway Shah Alam Selangor Sdn Bhd (KESAS) is a join consortium between Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS), Gamuda Berhad, Arab Malaysian Development Berhad (AMDB) and Permodalan Nasional Berhad (PNB).

Shahurain Abu Samah

Shahurain Abu Samah (born on December 23, 1986 in Kajang, Selangor) is a Malaysian footballer who is currently a midfielder/right winger for Felda United F.C..

Sharbinee Allawee

Sharbinee spends the entire season as the Selangor second choice goalkeeper behind Norazlan Razali, and returned to Terengganu for the 2014 season after only one season with Selangor.

SM Nasimuddin SM Amin

The body was later taken to Batu 9 Muslim Cemetery in Hulu Langat, Selangor to be buried next to the grave of his beloved mother, Salbiah Abdul Majid.

SMKA Simpang Lima

The institution is located at Simpang Lima Village in the district of Sabak Bernam, Selangor, Malaysia (Postcode: 45300).

Taman Greenwood

Taman Greenwood, a town in Selangor is located between the interchanges of Jalan Batu Caves and Karak Highway.

Tuan Haji Anuar bin Haji Abd. Wahab

He was born on 23 December 1945 in Bagan Tunjang, Sabak Bernam, Selangor.

Tuhfat al-Nafis

The conflict occurred both in the provinces of Riau and in Kedah, Selangor, Siak and Kalimantan.

Tunku Ali Redhauddin Muhriz

Tunku Ali Redhauddin ibni Tunku Muhriz was born on 26 April 1977 at University Hospital, Petaling Jaya, Selangor), as elder son and child of Tuanku Muhriz ibni Almarhum Tuanku Munawir (now the reigning Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan) and Tuanku Aishah Rohani.

Uthaya Sankar SB

Uthaya Sankar SB was bred in Taiping, Perak before moving to Klang, Selangor and later settling in Shah Alam, Selangor.

Yusof Ghani

Ghani was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Art and Design, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Selangor, Malaysia.