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16-526: It is located along Cheras Road Federal Route 1 and can be accessed through Maluri station served by the LRT Ampang Line and the MRT Kajang Line . It is one of the housing areas closest to Kuala Lumpur's Golden Triangle . Maluri is located close to the boundary between Cheras and Kuala Lumpur's central business district. It is adjacent to Kampung Pandan , Pandan Jaya and Cochrane Road . Across

32-411: Is Maimunah Mohd Sharif , who has been in office since 15 August 2024. The agency was formerly known as Kuala Lumpur Municipal Council formed in 1957 to take over the role of Kuala Lumpur Sanitary Board.( Malay : Majlis Perbandaran Kuala Lumpur ). During British colonial times and early independence, Kuala Lumpur had been the capital of the country as well as the state of Selangor . On 1 April 1961,

48-531: Is the city council which administers the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia . This council was established after the city was officially granted city status on 1 February 1972. Their jurisdiction covers an area of 243 square kilometres. The council consists of the mayor plus fifteen members of the city advisory board appointed to serve a one-year term by the Minister of Territories . The current mayor of Kuala Lumpur

64-475: The  AG13   KG22  Maluri station , served by both the LRT Ampang Line and the MRT Kajang Line . Cochrane MRT station is another MRT station located near the suburb. Maluri is also an important rapidKL bus hub, with routes going as far as KLCC , Kajang and Titiwangsa . This Malaysian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jalan Cheras Like all other historical urban centres,

80-611: The Kerayong River is the development of Shamelin Perkasa . Maluri houses a number of public, private and international schools, most notably Taylor's International School. Maluri is the home of Aeon 's (formerly JUSCO ) oldest store in Malaysia , which opened on 30 October 1989. The store, like all other JUSCO stores in Malaysia, was rebranded as AEON in March 2012. Newer malls sprung up in

96-451: The area in recent years, including Sunway Velocity Mall . IKEA's second store in Malaysia opened along Cochrane Road , just adjacent to Maluri. Maluri is located along Cheras Road , next to its interchange with Besraya Expressway [REDACTED] Sungai Besi Expressway . The area can also accessed via Cochrane Road , Jalan Perkasa and the MRR2 via Pandan Jaya . Maluri lends its name to

112-886: The capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur , contains a number of current and old roads and streets across the city. This article contains an alphabetical list of notable roads within Kuala Lumpur. The majority of older roads in and around Kuala Lumpur were originally named during British rule in Selangor, and as such, were in English and named after British figures, a handful of local dignitaries or royalties, districts, local populations, landmarks or geographical features. Other surrounding locales, such as Kampung Baru , Pudu , Imbi and Sentul have had roads known primarily in Malay since colonial rule. Following Malaya's independence in 1957 and

128-547: The capital of Selangor in 1978 after the city of Shah Alam was declared as the new state capital. Kuala Lumpur was administered by a corporation sole called the Federal Capital Commissioner ( Malay : Pesuruhjaya Ibu Kota Persekutuan ) from 1 April 1961 until it was awarded city status on 1 February 1972, after which executive power was transferred to the Mayor ( Malay : Datuk Bandar ). Executive power lies with

144-541: The city, with several roads merged, split, or modified, forming new roads or retiring old ones. While earlier street name changes post-independence have been generally accepted, the persistent renaming campaign of existing roads and growing public awareness of the history of Kuala Lumpur's streets has increasingly drawn ire from local communities, particularly road users, postal users, and historians, due to inconvenience borne from memorising longer, more convoluted names of roads which were formerly shorter and easier to memorise,

160-855: The controversy. A guideline was formulated for the translation of English signage on roads. The Kuala Lumpur City Hall is pursuing a process of standardisation for road signage. (e.g. Tengkat Tong Shin has been renamed as Jalan Tong Shin ) Chow Kit is also a sub-district in central Kuala Lumpur and features the Chow Kit monorail station , Bazaar Baru Chow Kit (a wet market)and Pasar Malam Chow Kit (a night market). Batu Road (formerly) Gombak Road (formerly) (circa 1880s and 1890s) Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur 3°9′8.8″N 101°41′39.0″E  /  3.152444°N 101.694167°E  / 3.152444; 101.694167 The Kuala Lumpur City Hall ( Malay : Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur , abbreviated DBKL ; Jawi : ديوان بندراي کوالا لومڤور ‎)

176-569: The formation of Malaysia in 1963, street names in Kuala Lumpur were translated into the Malay language, some of which were given more simplified descriptions (i.e. "Old Market Square" as " Medan Pasar Besar " and "Foch Avenue" as " Jalan Foch "), as Malay was officially adopted as the official language of Malaysia in 1967. The vast majority of the street names was further renamed en masse in 1981, as part of post-independence decolonisation pushed by

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192-432: The increased cost of replacing and maintaining documents and signages, and the revisionist undertones of the renaming policy. One renaming campaign of eight major roads in honour of former Yang di-Pertuan Agongs on 2 November 2014 had notably drawn backlash from the public as well as Member of Parliament Lim Lip Eng , leading to a rebuttal by UMNO Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin ; the name change proceeded in spite of

208-458: The mayor in the city hall, who is appointed for three years by the Minister of Federal Territories . This system of appointing the mayor and councillor has been in place ever since the local government elections were suspended in 1970. On 14 May 1990, Kuala Lumpur celebrated 100 years of local council. The new Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur flag and anthem were introduced. Kuala Lumpur City Hall launched its own coat of arms (officially called

224-444: The name changed into Kuala Lumpur Federal Capital Commission ( Malay : Suruhanjaya Ibu Kota Persekutuan ). Kuala Lumpur later achieved city status on 1 February 1972, becoming the first settlement in Malaysia to be granted the status after independence. The name changed into Kuala Lumpur City Hall ( Malay : Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur ). Later, on 1 February 1974, Kuala Lumpur became a Federal Territory . Kuala Lumpur ceased to be

240-679: The rounds of revision conducted by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall as late as 2007 on streets in Pudu and in the fringe towns of Sungai Besi and Jinjang , where English and British-named street names were still in use. Minor roads , however, are typically spared from this form of renaming. The accelerated development of the city after the country's independence also contributed to the widening of existing artery routes, creation of highways and new roadways, and extensive grade separation of roadways. This resulted in significant alterations of roadways in

256-475: The then newly elected Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad . Street names which previously featured semblances of English origins were replaced by those commemorating local Malay figures, Malay culture and key politicians in Malaya/Malaysia. The renaming included roads in the core of old Kuala Lumpur, as well as major thoroughfares in the city. Further renaming of old street names persists to date, with

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