2010 in Malaysia

Federal level

• Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu
• Raja Permaisuri Agong: Sultanah Nur Zahirah of Terengganu
• Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah of Kedah
• Prime Minister: Dato' Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak
• Deputy Prime Minister: Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin
• Chief Justice: Zaki Azmi

State level

•  Johor :
  • Sultan of Johor:
    • Sultan Iskandar (until 22 January)
    • Sultan Ibrahim Ismail (from 23 January)
  • Menteri Besar of Johor: Datuk Seri Abdul Ghani Othman
•  Kedah :
  • Sultan of Kedah: Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah (Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong)
  • Menteri Besar of Kedah: Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak
•  Kelantan :
  • Sultan of Kelantan:
    • Sultan Ismail Petra (until 13 September)
    • Sultan Muhammad V (from 13 September)
  • Menteri Besar of Kelantan: Nik Aziz Nik Mat
•  Perlis :
  • Raja of Perlis: Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
  • Menteri Besar of Perlis: Datuk Seri Dr Md Isa Sabu
•  Perak :
  • Sultan of Perak: Sultan Azlan Shah
  • Menteri Besar of Perak: Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir
•  Pahang :
  • Sultan of Pahang: Sultan Ahmad Shah
  • Menteri Besar of Pahang: Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob
•  Selangor :
  • Sultan of Selangor: Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah
  • Menteri Besar of Selangor: Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim
•  Terengganu :
  • Sultan of Terengganu: Tengku Muhammad Ismail (Regent)
  • Menteri Besar of Terengganu: Datuk Seri Ahmad Said
•  Negeri Sembilan :
  • Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku Muhriz
  • Menteri Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan
•  Penang :
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Penang: Tun Abdul Rahman Abbas
  • Chief Minister of Penang: Lim Guan Eng
•  Malacca :
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Mohd Khalil Yaakob
  • Chief Minister of Malacca: Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam
•  Sarawak :
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sarawak: Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin
  • Chief Minister of Sarawak: Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib bin Mahmud
•  Sabah :
  • Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Sabah: Tun Ahmad Shah Abdullah (until 31 December)
  • Chief Minister of Sabah: Datuk Seri Musa Aman

January

• 1 January – The new Melaka's state administrative centre, Hang Tuah Jaya was officially declared a municipality.
• 4 January – Datuk Abu Kassim Mohammad was sworn in as a new Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
• 8 January – Three churches in the Klang Valley region, are attacked following a legal dispute involving a Catholic newsweekly The Herald which used the word "Allah" for the Christian God.
• 10 January – A church and a school guard post in Taiping, Perak had Molotov cocktails thrown at them. No damage to the All Saints Church in Jalan Taming Sari while the guard post at Convent High School suffered only minor damage.
• 17 January – A teacher and a student from Sekolah Menengah Jenis Kebangsaan (C) Chung Ling were killed and four others were missing in the dragon boat tragedy in Penang.
• 18 January – MyID, Malaysian electronic government transactions was launched.
• 20 January – Police arrest of eight men who allegedly attacked a Christian church with a firebomb in Klang Valley region.
• 20 January – Najib Tun Razak visited India and met the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
• 21 January – Two separate surau in two villages in Sabak Aur and Parit Beting in Muar, Johor were partially damaged in two arson attempts.
• 22 January – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), dies at the age of 77. On 23 January, his body was laid to rest at Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum, Johor Bahru. Shortly before funeral, his son the Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail was proclaimed as the fifth Sultan of Johor with a title Sultan Ibrahim Ismail ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar. Johor declares seven days of mourning period with federal and state flags flown at half-mast and all entertainment activities are cancelled.
• 24 January – A light aircraft crashed into the jungle at Kampung Sungai Ladong, Simunjan, in Samarahan Division, Sarawak, killing the pilot and injuring a surgeon who was also on board.
• 28 January – The Government Transformation Programme (GTP) is unveiled.
• 29 January – Shah Alam Member of Parliament, Khalid Abdul Samad was suspended for six months as Shah Alam PAS chief and member of the party’s political bureau by the PAS discipline committee.

February

Regular international biometric passport (ICAO-compliant), issued starting February 2010

Penang Hill Railway.

• 2 February – The ICAO version of Malaysian passport was launched.
• 2 February – The sodomy trial of Anwar Ibrahim began for the second time since 1998.
• 9 February – The Federal Court declared that Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir was a rightful Menteri Besar (Chief Minister) of Perak.
• 12 February – Bayan Baru MP Zahrain Mohamed Hashim quit the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party.
• 20 February – Penang Hill’s iconic funicular train made its final run after 87 years and it will be replaced by a RM63 mil upgraded system, which was expected to be ready seven months after.
• 23 February – A large part of the 200-year-old Ho Ann Kiong Chinese temple in the Chinatown Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu was destroyed in a fire. Almost 60% of the building was destroyed in the 9.30pm fire on Monday night. No fatalities were reported.
• 23 February – A Malaysian consular employee was stabbed to death in a "ferocious attack" outside his home in a suspected road rage incident in Sydney, Australia.
• 27 February – A 3-year-old girl Syafia Humairah Sahari was killed in an act of abuse.

March

• 2 March – Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng quit the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party.
• 8 March – The Federal Court ruled Anwar Ibrahim’s 1998 dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister and finance minister as lawful.
• 8 March – Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Magnus and Crown Princess Mette-Merit visited Malaysia.
• 9 March – Three siblings perished in a pre-dawn fire that gutted their wooden double-storey house and four other houses in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
• 10 March – A teacher, three children were injured in an attack at a Kindergarten in Muar, Johor.
• 14 March – Malaysia's World no.1 badminton player, Lee Chong Wei wins the All England men's title.
• 25 March – A Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) pilot was killed after his Pilatus PC-7 MK2 aircraft crashed into a forest reserve in Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) in Sintok, Kedah.
• 28 March – Former MCA deputy president Chua Soi Lek is elected as the new president beating Ong Tee Keat and Ong Ka Ting.
• 30 March – The Malaysia's New Economic Model (NEM) was unveiled.

April

• 3 April – Najib Tun Razak marked his first years as Prime Minister.
• 12 April – Najib Tun Razak met with US President, Barack Obama for the first time during the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington DC.
• 15 April – Bakar Arang, Kedah's state assemblyman Tan Wei Shu quit the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party.
• 17 April – Achik Spin (real name Abdillah Murad Md Shari), vocalist of Malaysian rock band Spin died in a car accident on Kajang–Seremban Highway near Pajam, Negeri Sembilan.
• 18 April – Najib Tun Razak visited Japan and met the Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
• 19 April – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) party treasurer for Hulu Selangor, Dr Halili Rahmat quit the party and joined UMNO.
• 20 April – Two Perak PKR female leaders, Roshanita Mohd Basir and Soraya Sulaiman, quit the party to join UMNO.
• 20 April – The Sarawak National Party (SNAP) officially joined as a member of the Pakatan Rakyat.
• 22 April – Kelantan PKR youth chief Wan Khairul Ihsan Wan Ahmad and secretary Ezri Zainal Abidin quit the party to join UMNO.
• 25 April – Hulu Selangor by-election, 2010, Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates P. Kamalanathan win a by-election with a majority of 1,725 votes beating Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) candidates Zaid Ibrahim.
• 26 April – A 15-year-old boy Aminulrasyid Amzah was shot dead while reversing his car in an attempt to run over several policemen in Shah Alam, Selangor.

May

Tanjong Pagar railway station in Singapore owned by Malaysian KTMB.

• 9 May – Najib Tun Razak visited Cambodia and met the Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen.
• 13 May – Najib Tun Razak announced that the Malaysian economy recorded a robust growth of 10.1% in the first quarter of 2010, the highest first-quarter growth the country has seen since the year 2000.
• 16 May – Sibu by-election, 2010, Democratic Action Party (DAP) candidates Wong Ho Leng won a by-election with a majority of 398 votes beating Barisan Nasional (BN) candidates Robert Lau Hui Yew.
• 19 May – Kelantan palace guard Ramli Mohamad, who was shot by an unidentified assailant on 1 May, died at a hospital after 19 days.
• 24 May – Najib Tun Razak meets Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore. Malaysia agreed to move the Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) station at Tanjong Pagar to the Woodlands Train Checkpoint by 1 July 2011.
• 25 May – A Malaysian tanker and a bulk carrier collided at the Singapore Strait, resulting in an oil spill estimated to be at a loss of 2,000 tonnes.

June

An overhead view of the Pudu Prison complex, as seen from the Berjaya Times Square. (2008)

• 2 June – All 12 Malaysians on board the Turkish vessel Mavi Marvara found safety following the flotilla attack by the Israeli naval forces, which was carrying activists to the Gaza Strip on 1 June, killing at least ten people.
• 3 June – The Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) was gazetted.
• 5 June – All six Malaysians on board the Cambodian vessel Rachel Corrie are safe.
• 6 June – All six Malaysians on board the Cambodian vessel Rachel Corrie return home.
• 10 June – The Tenth Malaysia Plan is unveiled by the Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak.
• 11 June – Official opening of the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque (Iron Mosque) in Putrajaya.
• 15 June – Malim Nawar, Perak's state assemblyman Keshvinder Singh quits Democratic Action Party (DAP) party.
• 20 June – The 115-year-old Pudu Prison's wall between Jalan Pudu and Jalan Hang Tuah, Kuala Lumpur were demolished to make way for a road-widening project, including the construction of an underpass at Jalan Pudu–Hang Tuah junctions.
• 22 June – The Indonesian boat sank at Straits of Malacca near Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan left two dead and seven others were missing.
• 25 June – A Sikorsky-type helicopter belonging to a logging company based here crashed deep in the jungle near Long Pelutan, Baram, Sarawak, killing its American pilot.

July

Bunga Raya (Hibiscus rosa sinesis) turns 50.

• 2 July – The second submarine KD Tun Abdul Razak arrives in Lumut Naval Base, Perak.
• 6 July – 22 August –A population census was carried out nationwide, result shows that the nation's population was at 28,334,135.
• 9 July – Proton cars celebrates its 25th anniversary. Launching of the Proton EMAS prototype cars.
• 16 July – The federal government announced a reduction in the subsidies for fuel, specifically petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), as well as sugar. Subsidies for RON 95 and diesel will be reduced by five sen per litre and LPG by 10 sen per kg. RON 97 petrol will no longer be subsidised but will be subject to a managed float, with the price determined by an automatic pricing mechanism. The new price for RON 95 is RM1.85 per litre compared with RM1.80 per litre. For sugar, the price has been adjusted upward by 25 sen per kg to RM1.90 per kg (previously RM1.65 per kg).
• 26 July – Heavy vehicles will be banned during peak hours in the morning to ease congestion at certain routes of the PLUS Expressways in the Klang Valley, beginning 2 August The affected routes included New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) between Shah Alam and Jalan Duta, North–South Expressway Northern Route between Sungai Buloh and Bukit Lanjan and the Federal Highway Route 2 between Subang and Sungai Rasau.
• 28 July – Bunga Raya (Chinese Hibiscus) celebrates its 50th golden jubilee.
• 29 July – Former Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik is charged with cheating in the billion-dollar Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal but pleads innocent.
• 31 July – The Hari Pahlawan (Warriors Day) celebrations is held at the Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur for the first time.

August

• 3 August – Former Permatang, Selangor state assemblyman Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohd Noh and his female personal assistant Siti Rohana Ismat, were found shot dead inside a car at the North–South Expressway Northern Route near Sungai Buloh.
• 12 August – The Ipoh–Kuala Lumpur–Seremban electric train service (ETS) express route began operations.
• 12 August – Kelantan launches the Islamic gold dinar and silver dirham known as Kelantanese dinar as an alternative currency.
• 13 August – Two people were killed and two others seriously injured in a freak storm at a Ramadan bazaar in Jasin, Malacca.
• 14 August – A man ran amok and killed his wife at their home in Langkap near Teluk Intan, Perak.
• 16 August – Pasir Mas Deputy RELA Chief Harun Abdullah, who was reported missing on Friday 13 August, is found dead near a railway track in Tumpat, Kelantan.
• 17 August – Four in a family of six were killed when their car collided with a van after breaking fast at Km 22 of Jalan Seremban–Simpang Pertang road in Bukit Tangga near Kuala Klawang in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan.
• 18 August – Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand today maintained that political aide Teoh Beng Hock did not commit suicide.
• 22 August – A 6-year-old boy was killed and two men were injured in an explosion at an abandoned house used to store fireworks and firecrackers at Kampung Seberang Baroh in Cabang Tiga near Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu.
• 23 August – Vandals splashed red paint on a surau in Taman Pulai Impian, Sikamat, Negeri Sembilan and left a broken beer bottle there in the first known attack on a place of worship since a string of similar incidents eight months ago.
• 30 August – The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) known as KLIA 2 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang.

September

Penang Bridge turns 25.

• 1 September – Tan Sri Ismail Omar will replace Tan Sri Musa Hassan as the country’s new Inspector-General of Police on 13 September.
• 1 September – Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor has suspended the datukship titles conferred on Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik and O.C. Phang following criminal charges filed against them over the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) issue.
• 2 September – The Kuala Lumpur–Karak Expressway and the East Coast Expressway Phase 1 (ECE 1) will be toll-free from 9pm till 6am on 7, 8, 15 and 16 September during Hari Raya Aidilfitri holidays.
• 6 September – A cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsudin, CIMB Kampong Baru bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad and personal lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim were reported missing since 30 August.
• 11 September – A 132kV power cable caught fire on the Penang Bridge, causing a massive traffic jam on both sides of the bridge
• 12 September – A missing cosmetics millionaire Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya and three others, her driver Kamaruddin Shamsudin, CIMB Kampong Baru bank officer Noorhisham Mohammad and personal lawyer Ahmad Kamil Abdul Karim were murdered, burnt and their ashes strewn in a river near Ladang Gadong, in Tanjung Sepat near Banting, Selangor.
• 13 September – The Regent of Kelantan, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Ibni Sultan Ismail Petra was proclaimed as the new Sultan of Kelantan with the title Sultan Muhammad V.
• 14 September – Penang Bridge celebrates its 25th anniversary.
• 16 September – The first Malaysia Day public holiday.
• 16 September – Three Fire and Rescue Department personnel were injured after a helicopter they were in crash landed in a rubber estate at Bukit Lada, FELCRA Kuala Kaung, in Lanchang, Pahang.
• 19 September – Datuk Sosilawati Lawiya's friend and Kosmetik Aveer founder, Sarina Jaafar, was found hanging in the master bedroom of her house at Taman Pauh Jaya in Bukit Mertajam, Penang.
• 20 September – Malaysia and Singapore agreed to swap land parcels in the city-state Singapore as part of the Malaysia–Singapore Points of Agreement of 1990.

October

• 6 October – A monkey kills a four-day-old baby girl sleeping in the living room of her family’s home in Seremban, Negeri Sembilan.
• 7 October – Six fishermen were missing and 11 were saved when a merchant ship rammed into their boat in the Straits of Malacca, about 10 nautical miles (19 km) off Sabak Bernam, Selangor.
• 9 October – From 2016 onwards, the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination for Form Three students will be replaced with a school-based assessment to be drawn up by the Malaysian Examination Institution (Lembaga Peperiksaan Malaysia).
• 9 October – Batu Sapi member of parliament Datuk Edmund Chong Ket Wah dies in motorcycle crash at Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
• 10 October – Malaysia's first angkasawan (cosmonaut), Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor marries Dr. Halina Mohd Yunos.
• 10 October – Twelve people were killed and more than 50 others injured in an highway crash involving two buses, three cars and a van at Km 223 of the North–South Expressway, near the Simpang Ampat Interchange, Melaka.
• 15 October – Malaysian Parliament celebrates its 50th anniversary of the formation.
• 15 October – The RM5 billion landmark Warisan Merdeka project, including a 100-storey tower in Kuala Lumpur is announced during the 2011 Budget.
• 16 October – Beginning next year, all Year One pupils will be studying Science and Mathematics in Bahasa Malaysia (Malay Language), ahead of the initial 2012 target. Their textbooks will also be in Bahasa Malaysia.
• 18 October – Six people are dead and up to seven people are feared missing after a ferry collided with a tugboat in the Anap river, Sarawak.
• 20 October – Melaka declares as the developed state in Malaysia.
• 25 October – Nine agreements worth at least RM 30 billion have been inked between the Government and the private sector, boosting the RM 1.3 trillion Economic Transformation Programme (ETP).
• 27 October – Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh visits Malaysia and officiate the launch of Little India in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur.
• 29 October – Seven people were killed and more than 20 injured when the bus they were travelling in crashed at the Genting Sempah–Genting Highlands Highway slip roads of the Kuala Lumpur–Karak Expressway near Genting Sempah.

November

Proton Inspira

• 1 November – TV Alhijrah it was national first terrestrial Islamic television channel in Malaysia was test of transmissions before 1 months, 6 days.
• 1 November – Australian Prime Minister, Julia Gillard visits Malaysia and meet the Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
• 1 November – Several parts of the northern Peninsula Malaysia were hit by flash floods. About 50,000 people were evacuated and left at least four people dead.
• 2 November – US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton make a three-day official visit to Malaysia.
• 4 November – Galas and Batu Sapi by-elections. Barisan Nasional (BN) win in both by-elections.
• 7 November – Sixteen people, one of them a four-year-old boy, survived an 18-hour ordeal floating at sea after their boat sank near Pulau Tenggol off Dungun, Terengganu.
• 8 November – Eight workers were injured in the motorcycle rim factory blast at Perai, Penang.
• 10 November – Launching of the new Proton New Sedan Proton Inspira (P3-90A), based on the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.
• 24 November – Lao President Choummaly Sayasone make a three-day state visit to Malaysia.
• 29 November – Somali pirates hijack a Malaysian-flagged ship in the Indian Ocean with 23 crew members on board.

December

• 1 December – A heavy downpour caused floods in several areas of the Klang Valley. Several users reported a heavy traffic build-up at the Subang Interchange of the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) on evening.
• 5 December – The Barisan Nasional (BN) charter is unveiled at the BN convention.
• 5 December – Police fired tear gas and water cannons at some 5,000 opposition-led protesters trying to hand over a memorandum on Selangor water issues to the Yang di-Pertuan Agong in Kuala Lumpur.
• 6 December – Former Selangor Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo has been charged with land fraud involving two plots of land and a house in Shah Alam worth millions of ringgit.
• 7 December – TV Alhijrah the national first terrestrial Islamic television channel in Malaysia was launched officially by Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak and broadcasts from Kuala Lumpur. This broadcast area was only limited to Klang Valley area, officially began transmissions after 1 months, 6 days of test of broadcasters.
• 9 December – South Korean President Lee Myung-bak make a two-day state visit to Malaysia in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between both countries.
• 16 December – Opposition Leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was suspended for six months from Dewan Rakyat over his statement linking the 1Malaysia concept with the One Israel campaign.
• 18 December – A 14-year-old girl, Siti Mazni Abdul Rahman was found murdered at the oil palm plantation in Parit Ju Darat, Tongkang Pechah, Johor.
• 18 December – The Sungai Buloh–Kajang MRT Line, part of the Klang Valley Mass Rail Transit (MRT) project is unveiled. Construction will begin in July 2011.
• 20 December – Twenty-seven people, mostly Thai tourist were killed when the double-decked coach bus they were travelling in crashed at the Second East–West Highway of the Perak–Pahang border near Cameron Highlands, Pahang.
• 23 December – The Selangor state government has banned advertisements on billboards that feature the '1Malaysia' logo.
• 29 December – Malaysia national football team wins the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup for the first time in 14 years after beating Indonesia 4-2 on aggregate in the finals. Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak declares a national public holiday on 31 December.

National Day Parade

Putra Stadium, Bukit Jalil

Malaysia Day Celebrations

Padang Merdeka, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah