This article lists important figures and events in Malaysian public affairs during the year 2010, together with the deaths of notable Malaysians. Malaysia Day, 16 September was celebrated as a national holiday for the first time.
Incumbent political figures
Federal level
State level
Events
January
- 1 January – The new Malacca state administrative centre, Hang Tuah Jaya was declared a municipality.
- 4 January – Datuk Abu Kassim Mohammad sworn in as Chief Commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
- 8 January – Three churches in the Klang Valley were attacked following a legal dispute involving a Catholic news weekly 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. There was 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 five students from Chung Ling High School were killed in a dragon boat accident in Penang.
- 18 January – MyID, electronic government transaction scheme was launched.
- 20 January – Police arrested eight men for attacking a Christian church with a firebomb in the Klang Valley.
- 21 January – Two surau, in Sabak Aur and Parit Beting in Muar, Johor were damaged by arson.
- 22 January – Sultan Iskandar of Johor, the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984âÂÂ1989), died aged 77. On 23 January, his body was laid to rest at Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum, Johor Bahru. His son the Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ibrahim Ismail was proclaimed as the fifth Sultan of Johor with the title Sultan Ibrahim Ismail ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar. Johor declared seven days of mourning with federal and state flags flown at half-mast and all entertainment activities 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) was 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
March
April
- 15 April – Bakar Arang, Kedah's state assemblyman Tan Wei Shu quit the People's Justice Party (PKR) party.
- 17 April – Achik Spin (real name Abdillah Murad Md Shari), vocalist of Malaysian rock band Spin died in a car accident on KajangâÂÂSeremban Highway near Pajam, Negeri Sembilan.
- 19 April – People's Justice Party (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 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 won a by-election with a majority of 1,725 votes beating People's Justice Party (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
June
July
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 NorthâÂÂSouth Expressway Northern Route near Sungai Buloh.
- 12 August – The IpohâÂÂKuala LumpurâÂÂSeremban electric train service (ETS) express route began operations.
- 12 August – Kelantan introduced the Islamic gold dinar and silver dirham known as Kelantanese dinar as an alternative currency.
- 13 August – Two people were killed and two others 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, was 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 at Km 22 of Jalan SerembanâÂÂSimpang Pertang road in Bukit Tangga near Kuala Klawang in Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan.
- 18 August – Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand 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.
- 30 August – The ground-breaking ceremony for the new Low Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) known as KLIA 2 at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) in Sepang.
September
- 1 September – Ismail Omar will replace Tan Sri Musa Hassan as the country's new Inspector-General of Police on 13 September.
- 2 September – The Kuala LumpurâÂÂKarak Expressway and the East Coast Expressway Phase 1 (ECE 1) would 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 Shamsuddin, CIMB Kampong Baru bank officer Noorhisham Mohamad 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 celebrated 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 MalaysiaâÂÂSingapore Points of Agreement of 1990.
- 20 September – Istana Budaya held Mahathir, the Musical.
October
- 6 October – A monkey killed 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 off Sabak Bernam, Selangor.
- 9 October – From 2016 onwards, the Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) examination for Form Three students would 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 died in a 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 a highway crash involving two buses, three cars and a van at Km 223 of the NorthâÂÂSouth Expressway, near the Simpang Ampat Interchange in Malacca.
- 15 October – Malaysian Parliament celebrated its 50th anniversary of the formation.
- 15 October – The RM5 billion landmark Warisan Merdeka project, including a 100-storey tower in Kuala Lumpur was 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 – Malacca was declared as a 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).
- 29 October – Seven people were killed and more than 20 injured when the bus they were travelling in crashed at the Genting SempahâÂÂGenting Highlands Highway slip roads of the Kuala LumpurâÂÂKarak Expressway near Genting Sempah.
November
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 was 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 was charged with land fraud involving two plots of land and a house in Shah Alam worth millions of ringgit.
- 9 December – South Korean President Lee Myung-bak made 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 BulohâÂÂKajang MRT Line, part of the Klang Valley Mass Rail Transit (MRT) project was unveiled. Construction would begin in July 2011.
- 20 December – Twenty-seven people, mostly Thai tourist were killed when the double-decker coach bus they were travelling in crashed at the Second EastâÂÂWest Highway of the PerakâÂÂPahang border near Cameron Highlands, Pahang.
- 23 December – The Selangor state government banned advertisements on billboards that feature the '1Malaysia' logo.
- 24 December – Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and his wife Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali visited India, and arrived in Mumbai.
- 29 December – Malaysia national football team won the 2010 AFF Suzuki Cup for the first time in 14 years after beating Indonesia 4âÂÂ2 on aggregate in the finals. Malaysian Prime Minister, Najib Tun Razak declared a national public holiday on 31 December.
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Deaths
See also
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