{"id":35211,"date":"2019-07-29T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T04:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35211"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:53:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T04:53:03","slug":"malaysia-all-set-for-installation-of-new-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=35211","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia all set for installation of new King"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Noor Shamsiah Mohamed<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, July 29\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysians are all ready to witness tomorrow yet another historic ceremony that usually takes place every five years &#8211; the installation of its new King or the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Sultan&nbsp;Abdullah&nbsp;Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah of Pahang will be installed as the 16th&nbsp;Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara in&nbsp;a ceremony unique to Malaysia that draws the attention of people the world over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yang di-Pertuan Agong or King is elected for a five-year term from among the nine Malay Rulers, on a rotational basis agreed upon by the rulers themselves. These are the rulers of Perlis, Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Johor, Pahang, Terengganu and Kelantan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sultan Abdullah will set in motion the second round of the rotational system that has been in practice since independence in 1957. He succeeds Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan who stepped down as the head of state on Jan 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sultan Abdullah was proclaimed as the sixth Sultan of Pahang on Jan 15, succeeding his father, the late\u00a0 Paduka Ayahanda Sultan Ahmad Shah Al-Musta\u2019in Billah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Noor Shamsiah Mohamed KUALA LUMPUR, July 29\u00a0(NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; Malaysians are all ready to witness tomorrow yet another historic ceremony that usually takes place every five years &#8211; the installation of its new King or the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Al-Sultan&nbsp;Abdullah&nbsp;Ri&#8217;ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah of Pahang will be installed as the 16th&nbsp;Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":35212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}