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Saturday, July 10, 2010

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Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
A public figure person from Malaysia. He was the forth Prime Minister in Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 (22 years old). Mahathir's political career spanned almost 40 years, from his election as a Malaysian federal Member of Parliamentin 1964, until his resignation as Prime Minister in 2003. During his term in office, Mahathir turned Malaysia into a regional high-teach manufacturing, financial and telecommunications hub through his economic policies based on corporate nationalism known as the various "Malaysia Plans" which set out the government middle-term objectives.

KLCC ("The Kuala Lumpur City Centre") & Petronas Twin Towers, is one of Tun Dr.Mahathir bin Mohamad conceptual thinking in transforming the "unproductive" once a month utilities into a visionary "City within the City" concept.


Putrajaya as well as the country's commercial and financial centre. Putrajaya was the brainchild of former Prime Minister Tun Dr.Mahathir bin Mohamad. In 2001, Putrajaya was made a Federal Territory, increasing the number of federal territories to three. Kuala Lumpur and Labuan are the other two. The vision to have a new Federal Government Administrative Centre to replace Kuala Lumpur as the administrative capital emerged in the late 1980s.


Kuala Lumpur International Airport (known as KLIA), Tun Dr.Mahathir bin Mohamad was a prime driver behind the project.


During his period time of being Prime Minister, he brought the changes of economic, polities and education into another high peak until we reached the Millennium year 2000.

* researches from Wikipedia*

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