Asia
Insights : Malaysia
Facts and background
Population :
24.8 m
Surface area : 329.8 thousand
Population growth: 2
Life expectancy (2003): 73 >
Population below national poverty line : 15.5 %
GNI per capita : 4520
GDP : 118.3 billion US$
Source: World
Development Indicators Database / UNDP Human Development
Indicatators 2004
Head of State:
Paramount Ruler: Tuanku SYED
SIRAJUDDIN ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail
Dep. Paramount Ruler: S ultan
MIZAN Zainal Abidin ibni Almarhum Al-Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah
Shah
Prime Minister: ABDULLAH
bin Ahmad Badawi
Source:
Governments on the Web
Politics
and society
IMF
country profile
Industrial
profile (UNIDO)
Trade
policy review (WTO)
Human
rights record (Amnesty)
Environmental
profile (UNEP)
Environmental
profile (WRI/WBank)
Eldis
Malaysia Page
Reliefweb
situation reports
AlertNet
Country
profile (CIA)
World
Statesmen
Political Chronology and Constitution of Malaysia
Malaysia
WWW Virtual Library
The World
Wide Web Virtual Library - Malaysia, as its name implies, is a collection
of links and other online resources related to Malaysia, for that
matter, anything Malaysian.
The WWW VL
Malaysia is part of the project under the WWW VL Asian Studies
Government
sites
Governments
on the Net: Malaysia
The
Office of the Prime Minister of Malaysia
Political
Resources on the Net
National Political Sites
 U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
States
State
Governments
from Malaysia Central
Political
parties
Electoral alliance:
Barisan
Nasional (National Front): multi-ethnic electoral organization
dominated by the UMNO. Members are:
Parties:
Kongres
India Se-Malaysia/Malaysian Indian Congress : Indian minority
party.
Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak
(Sarawak Native People's Party): Sarawak Dayak minority party.
Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah
(United Sabah People's Party): Sabah non-muslim indigenous party.
Parti
Bersatu Sabah (United Sabah Party): Sabah regionalist party.
Parti Demokratik Progresif
Sarawak/ Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party
Parti
Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia/Malaysian People's Movement Party :
centrist party, mainly active in Penang .
Parti
Islam se Malaysia (Islamic Party of Malaysia): islamist party.
Parti
Keadilan Rakyat
(People's Justice Party), centrist party.
Parti Liberal Demokratik/Liberal
Democratic Party : Chinese minority party based in Sabah .
Parti
Majuh Sabah/Sabah Progressive Party : ethnic Chinese party,
f.
Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu
(United Traditional umiputera Party): Sarawak regionalist party.
Parti
Progresif Penduduk Malaysia/People's Progressive Party of Malaysia
, left-wing party.
Parti
Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak/Sarawak United People's Party : Sarawak
Chinese minority party.
Parti
Tindakan Demokratik/Democratic Action Party
: social-democratic party, affiliated to the Socialist
International.
Pertubuhan
Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu /United Malays National Organisation:
Ethnic Malay party. The UMNO is dominant in the Barisan Nasional
and is more or less an uthoritarian party.
Persatuan
China Malaysia/Malaysian Chinese Organization : Chinese minority
party.
United
Pasok Momogun Kadazandusun Organisation : Sabah non-muslim indigenous
party.
Other Parties
Parti
Reformasi Negeri/State Reform Party Sarawak
Parti
Socialis Malaysia (Socialist Party of Malaysia )
Elections
Elections
in Malaysia
11th
Malaysian General Election
News
Daily
Express (Sabah)
Gerakan
Reformasi
Harakah
Malaysia
On-Line
Malaysia
Online
New
Straits Times, Malaysia
Sarawak
Tribune
South
China Morning Post
The
Star, Malaysia
Utusan
Malaysia (Malay)
News
from foreign sources
BBC
News
CNN
Reuters
and AP (Yahoo)
Northern
Light newsfeeds >
Human
rights news (Amnesty)
OneWorld.Net
News
IMF
country news
Far
Eastern Economic Review (FEER)
Go
Asia Pacific
Research
Institutions, Libraries and Networks
Malay:
Malay World Studies Portal
at www.malaycivilization.com
Universiti Kebangsaan
Malyasia
Databases:
ATMA:
Malay World Studies DatabaseP
Pantun
Baba Cina: catalogue and database on Baba pantun,
syair and gurindan on the Internet
Kamus
Peribahasa Melayu Digital: Digital dictionary of
Malay proverbs
Koleksi
N.A. Halim: Malay architecure from N.A. Halim
Sari
Online: Jurnal Alam dan Tamadun Melayu:
All
articles from SARI since Vol. 1 1983
Kamus
Melayu: Root words in Malay
Koleksi
Tenes Effendy: 27,000 kata adat, pantun and syair
Melayu-Riau
ATMA:Institute
Alam Dan Tamadun Melayu
UKM:
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
University
of Malaysia
Other
University Libraries in MalaysiaAsian
and Pacific Development Centre (APDC), Malaysia
Department
of Statistics, Malaysia / Jabatan Perangkaan Malaysia
Universiti
Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia
Academy
of Science Malaysia
Nordic
Nordic
Research Network for Maliau, Malaysia
International
Eldis:
Malaysia Country Site
Discussion lists
and blogs
Blog Directory Malaysia
BlogExplosion.Com
Blogs
in Malaysia
British Blogger Directory.
BolehBlogs Directory
A directory of Malaysian weblogs & journals.
Borneo-L--
Borneo-List,
Lundu, Sarawak, Malaysia
Supplied note: "A
list open to scholars and all interested persons for the discussion
of things Borneo. - os."
[A mailing list established
in Feb 2005 by Dr O. Steinmayer
MISG-L:
Discussion list sponsored by the Malaysian Islamic Study Group (Misg-Net)
for those interested in Malaysian affairs. Most discussions are
in Bahasa Malaysia (Malay nguage)
Development
organisations / agencies
Development
organisations (Devdir)
UN
Development Programme (UNDP)
Human Development Indicators 
Asian
Development Bank (ADB)
Malaysia Country Page
Development
Gateway
Malaysia Country Page Portal on sustainable development and poverty
reduction
CIDA
Virtual Library Malaysia
Other
resources
Malaysian
Gateway to Internet Resources
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