It is printed in tabloid format, with some complaints about the pullout sections making the newspaper too disorganised. Its other major competitor is the New Straits Times, a tabloid (the broadsheet version was discontinued in March, 2005), with another English-language tabloid, The Sun, also grabbing readers. Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... The New Straits Times is a Malaysian English language newspaper. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... March is the third month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2005(MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Sun is the first and only free national English daily newspaper in Malaysia. ...
Malaysia's economic prospects remain healthy, although it faces fierce competition from its neighbours, and from China and India.
Under Malaysia's constitutional monarchy, the position of king is rotated every five years between each of the nine hereditary state rulers.
Malaysia's first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman, himself a prince, devised the system after independence in 1957 to spread power among the sultans and rajas who had ruled over fiefdoms on the Malay peninsula for hundreds of years.
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