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Distinguished Company.
MALAYSIA DAY was celebrated yesterday and we joined a distinguished company of diplomats and statesmen who went up to the Shelbourne's upper regions to be greeted by His Excellency the Ambassador for Malaysia and Puan Sri Norhimah Jamil.
This rich peninsula which juts out to form the southern-most part of the mainland of Asia has a population of ten-and-a-half millions.
About half of them are Malays. Of the remainder about three-quarters are of Chinese descent and rather less than a quarter are of Indian and Pakistani descent.
The capital is Kuala Lumpur and the official languages are Malay and English.
Nine sultans run the country and they elect one of their number every five years as Paramount Ruler.
His name, I was told last night by the courteous Press Officer of the Malaysian Embassy, is Tunku Ismail Nasiruddin. All right. You pronounce it.
Malaysia, the Press Officer told me, is the world's largest exporter of rubber, tin and palm oil.
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