WHAT HAPPENE IN 2017
// January
Jan 9: Football player Mohd Faiz Subri wins the Puskas Award at the 2016 Best Fifa Football Awards in Zurich, Switzerland.
Jan 11: Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem, 72, dies of a heart attack.
Jan 17: The first phase of the Mass Rapid Transit Line from Sungai Buloh to Semantan starts operations.
// February
Feb 13: The assassination of Kim Jongnam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim JongLumpurun, at Kuala International Airport 2.
Feb 18: Eight teenagers riding modified bicycles are killed when a car rams into them in Johor Baru.
Feb 26: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Abdulaziz Al-Saud arrives in Malaysia for a four-day state visit.
// March
March 15: Kelantan executive council agrees to declare the H5N1 avian flu outbreak a ‘state disaster’.
March 27: French President Francois Hollande arrives in Malaysia for a twoday state visit.
// April
April 4: The Sexual Offences Against Children Act 2017 to protect anyone d 18f lbida
April 15: Yang di-Pertuan
Agong Sultan Muhammad
V is proclaimed the 5th chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Mara at the university's 86th convocation.
April 24: Yang diPertuan Agong Sultan Muhammad V is installed in a ceremony steeped in tradition.
April 26: Mohamad Thaqif Amin Mohd Gaddafi, an 11-year old tahfiz student in Kota Tinggi, Johor, dies following alleged abuse. A post-mortem reveals he died of leptospirosis.
April 29: Top Malaysian Islamic State operative in Syria, Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, is killed in a drone attack.
// May
May 14: Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Najib Razak witnesses the exchange of nine business-to-business memoranda of understanding and agreements in China, estimated at RM31.26 billion.
May 24: The Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, which also owns Volvo, signs an agreement to acquire a 49.9 per cent stake in Proton Holdings Bhd.
May 31: Authorities freeze 91 bank accounts, amounting to RM177 million, that are linked to a local financial scheme company, MBI Group International.
// June
June 14: Five university students are charged with the murder of National Defence University of Malaysia naval cadet Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, 21.
June 22: A special court that deals with sexual crimes against children, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia, is launched by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
// July
July 17: The second phase of the Mass Rapid Transit Sungai BulohKajang Line between Semantan and Kajang begins operations.
// August
Aug 8: Amendments to the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) (Amendment) Bill 2016 relating to the unilateral conversion of children are tabled in Parliament.
Aug 19: Malaysia hosts the 29th Sea Games.
Aug 21: The first day of the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) foreign exchange losses reveals that RM31.5 billion lost between 1991 and 1994 was hidden from the central bank.
Aug 30: Malaysia emerges top in the Sea Games with a final total of 145 gold, 92 silver and 86 bronze medals.
// September
Sept 4: Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar officially hands over the inspectorgeneral of police position to Special Branch director Tan Sri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
Sept 11: The 27th Sultan of Kedah and 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah dies at the age of 89.
Sept 14: A fire breaks out at the Darul Quran Ittifaqiyah religious school in Kampung Datuk Keramat, claiming the lives of 23 people.
// October
Oct 2: The trial of the two women accused of killing Kim Jong-nam begins.
Oct 4: Datuk Maznah Hamid, 62, also known as ‘Iron Lady’ due to her involvement in the security industry, dies at the National Heart Institute.
Oct 13: The RCI into BNM’s forex losses in the 1990s presents its findings to Sultan Muhammad V.
Oct 16: Sultan of Terengganu Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin commissions the appointment of Professor Datuk Seri Dr Zaleha Kamarudin as the first female judge of the state Syariah Court of Appeal.
Oct 18: Business mogul and prominent philanthropist Tan Sri
Yeoh Tiong Lay dies at 88.
Oct 21: A Malaysian and 10 foreign workers are killed in a landslide in Tanjung Bungah, Penang.
Oct 24: A revised Employment Insurance System Bill (EIS) is tabled in Parliament by Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri Richard
Riot Jaem to further safeguard employees’ welfare. The revised
EIS, to be administered by the Social Security Organisation, will benefit some 6.5 million workers in the event they lose their job.
// November
Nov 2: Prince of Wales Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, arrives for an official visit to commemorate the 60th anniversary of bilateral relations between Malaysia and the United Kingdom.
Nov 14: After two years at the Giant Panda Conservation Centre at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Nuan Nuan is sent back to China.
// December
Dec 7: It is discovered that fake baby formula is sold in Johor.
Dec 22: Malaysia arrests 20 suspected militants, including 13 foreigners, in a counterterrorism operation.
Dec 23: Penang Island City Council Mayor Datuk Maimunah Mohd Sharif accepts position as United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) executive director.
Dec 26: National laureate Professor Emeritus Datuk Dr Shahnon Ahmad dies of pneumonia at 84.