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Malaspina Glacier ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2006

Malaspina Glacier segment of the St. Elias Mountains glacier system, west of Yakutat Bay in southeastern Alaska, U.S. The most extensive individual ice field in Alaska, it flows for 50 miles (80 km) along the southern base of Mount St. Elias, is more than 1,000 feet (300 metres) thick, and covers about ... Malatesta Family Italian family that ruled Rimini, south of Ravenna, in the European Middle Ages and led the region's Guelf (papal) party. Originating as feudal lords of the Apennine hinterland, the family became powerful in Rimini in the 13th century, when Malatesta da Verucchio (d. 1312) expelled Ghibelline (imperial party) leaders in ... Malatesta, Errico Italian anarchist and agitator, a leading advocate of "propaganda of the deed," the doctrine urged largely by Italian anarchists that revolutionary ideas could best be spread by armed insurrection. Malatesta, Sigismondo Pandolfo feudal ruler and condottiere who is often regarded as the prototype of the Italian Renaissance prince. Malathion trade name for an organic phosphorus compound that is a general-purpose insecticide considerably less toxic to humans than parathion and is thus suited for the control of household and garden insects. It is important in the control of mosquitoes, flies, and lice. Malathion is a yellow-to-brown liquid with a characteristic ... Malatya city, east-central Turkey. It lies in a fertile plain watered by the Tohma River (a tributary of the Euphrates) and is surrounded by high ranges of the eastern Taurus Mountains. The modern town was founded in 1838 near the sites of two earlier settlements: the ancient Hittite city of Milid, ... Malavikagnimitra five-act drama written by Kalidasa in the 5th century CE. The story is a light tale set in a harem, and, unlike Kalidasa's other works, it sustains a playful and comical mood throughout. It concerns the machinations of King Agnimitra to win Malavika, a female dance student with whom he ... Malaviya, Madan Mohan Indian scholar, educational reformer, and a leader of the Indian nationalist movement. Malawi: Year in Review 1994 A republic and member of the Commonwealth, Malawi is a landlocked state in eastern Africa. Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est.): 10,581,000 (including about 1.1 million Mozambican refugees). Cap.: Lilongwe (legislature meets in Zomba). Monetary unit: Malawi kwacha, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of ... Malawi: Year in Review 1995 A republic and member of the Commonwealth, Malawi is a landlocked state in eastern Africa. Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi). Pop. (1994 est.): 9,732,000. Cap.: Lilongwe. Monetary unit: Malawi kwacha, with (Oct. 7, 1994) a free rate of 13.50 kwacha to U.S. $1 (21.48 kwacha = 1 sterling). ... Malawi: Year in Review 1996 A republic and member of the Commonwealth, Malawi is a landlocked state in eastern Africa. Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi). Pop. (1995 est.): 9,939,000. Cap.: Lilongwe. Monetary unit: Malawi kwacha, with (Oct. 6, 1995) a free rate of 15.26 kwacha to U.S. $1 (24.13 kwacha = 1 sterling). ... Malawi: Year in Review 1997 A republic and member of the Commonwealth, Malawi is a landlocked state in eastern Africa. Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi). Pop. (1996 est.): 9,453,000. A capital is not designated in the 1994 constitution. Current government operations are divided between Lilongwe (ministerial and financial), Blantyre (executive and judicial), and ... Malawi: Year in Review 1998 Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi) Malawi: Year in Review 1999 Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq mi) Malawi: Year in Review 2000 The presidential and legislative elections, scheduled to take place in May 1999, were twice postponed on procedural grounds. When voting eventually took place on June 15, ethnic allegiances proved to be the dominant factor. Pres. Bakili Muluzi's United Democratic Front (UDF) won 76 seats in the south of the country, ... Malawi: Year in Review 2001 Malawi was applauded by outside observers for promptly providing two of its three helicopters to assist in rescue operations in neighbouring Mozambique, where floods devastated southern districts in February 2000. Malawi: Year in Review 2002 In February 2001 Judge Edward Twea sentenced John Chikakwiya, mayor of Blantyre and a prominent member of the ruling United Democratic Front, together with three senior policemen, to two weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. Chikakwiya had ordered the teargassing of a legal and peaceful gathering of the National ... Malawi: Year in Review 2003 In February 2002, with hundreds of people dying of starvation as a result of floods followed by a season of drought, the government of Malawi made an international appeal for food aid. Responding to accusations of mismanagement and corruption, the government claimed that it had sold off reserves of corn ... Malawi: Year in Review 2004 After Pres. Bakili Muluzi decided in March 2003 to abandon his plan to change the constitution so that he could stand for a third term of office in the May 2004 presidential election, there was an immediate offer from donors to finance half the cost of the election process. Muluzi ... Malawi: Year in Review 2005 On Jan. 1, 2004, Malawi's Vice Pres. Justin Malewezi caused a stir by resigning from the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) and joining an opposition party. Victory for the UDF in the spring parliamentary elections was not a foregone conclusion because of widespread discontent over official corruption, the government's inadequate ... Malawi: Year in Review 2006 In February 2005, Pres. Bingu wa Mutharika resigned from Malawi's ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) to form the Democratic Progressive Party. He said that he had done so to preserve the integrity of his office in light of the corruption among members of his government. The UDF called for the ... Malawi: Year in Review 2007 The crippling drought of 2005 in Malawi continued in 2006 to create widespread food shortages, which inflated the price of maize (corn), the staple food of most of the population, to unaffordable levels. By September, however, an excellent harvest had greatly eased the situation. Malawi: Year in Review 2008 A bumper corn (maize) harvest for the second year in succession helped Malawi's recovery in 2007 from long periods of drought and made it possible in May to supply Zimbabwe with $120 million of the cereal. In August an additional 10,000 tons were provided for drought-stricken Lesotho and Swaziland. Small ... Malawi: Year in Review 2009 At the beginning of 2008, heavy rains and floods, which destroyed homes and crops in the 14 affected districts in Malawi, also aroused fears of food shortages. The government's assurances that there were adequate reserves from previous years failed to silence criticisms of the export in 2007 of 300,000 metric ... Malawi: Year in Review 2010 In Malawi's general elections held on May 19, 2009, Pres. Bingu wa Mutharika was reelected to a second five-year term in office, winning nearly 66% of the vote. He defeated six candidates, including opposition leader John Tembo, who finished a distant second in the polls with 30.69%. Mutharika's Democratic Progressive ... Malawi: Year in Review 2011 On Jan. 31, 2010, Malawi's Pres. Binga wa Mutharika unseated Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya to become president of the African Union. In an address to the UN General Assembly on behalf of the AU, Mutharika called for a shift from "Afro-pessimism" to "Afro-optimism" and urged governments and the media to ... Malawi: Year in Review 2012 Malawi's progress in economic recovery and democratic governance completely reversed in 2011. Pres. Bingu wa Mutharika and an ethnic clique consolidated their grip on state institutions, moving toward one-party rule reminiscent of the Hastings Kamuzu Banda era (1963-94). In December 2010, Vice Pres. Joyce Banda was expelled from the ruling ... Malawi: Year in Review 2013 Malawi's economic and political landscape was transformed with the death of Pres. Bingu wa Mutharika on April 5, 2012. After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres. Joyce Hilda Banda was inaugurated as president, as specified in the succession plan mandated by the constitution. She faced the challenge of lifting ... Malawi landlocked country in southeastern Africa. A country endowed with spectacular highlands and extensive lakes, it occupies a narrow, curving strip of land along the East African Rift Valley. Lake Nyasa, known in Malawi as Lake Malawi, accounts for more than one-fifth of the country's total area. Malawi, flag of horizontally striped black-red-green national flag with a red half-sun on the black stripe. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3. Malay any member of an ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas. The Malays speak various dialects belonging to the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) family of languages. Malay Archipelago largest group of islands in the world, consisting of the more than 17,000 islands of Indonesia and the approximately 7,000 islands of the Philippines. The regional name "East Indies" is sometimes used as a synonym for the archipelago. New Guinea is usually arbitrarily included in the Malay Archipelago, though the ... Malay language member of the Western, or Indonesian, branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family, spoken as a native language by more than 33,000,000 persons distributed over the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and the numerous smaller islands of the area, and widely used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a second language. Malay ... Malay Peninsula in Southeast Asia, a long, narrow appendix of the mainland extending south for a distance of about 700 miles (1,127 km) through the Isthmus of Kra to Cape Piai, the southernmost point of the Asian continent; its maximum width is 200 miles (322 km), and it covers roughly 70,000 square ... Malayalam language member of the South Dravidian subgroup of the Dravidian language family. Malayalam is spoken mainly in India, where it is the official language of the state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep. It is also spoken by bilingual communities in contiguous parts of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. In ... Malayan Emergency (1948-60), period of unrest following the creation of the Federation of Malaya (precursor of Malaysia) in 1948. Malayan lar species of gibbon (q.v.). Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army guerrilla movement formed originally to oppose the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II. In December 1941 a rapid Japanese invasion commenced, and within 10 weeks it had conquered Malaya. British military forces had prepared for this possibility by training small Malayan guerrilla groups. Once war became a reality, ... Malaysia: Year in Review 1994 A federal constitutional monarchy of Southeast Asia and member of the Commonwealth, Malaysia consists of the former Federation of Malaya at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula (excluding Singapore) and Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo. Area: 330,442 sq km (127,584 sq mi). ... Malaysia: Year in Review 1995 A federal constitutional monarchy of Southeast Asia and member of the Commonwealth, Malaysia consists of the former Federation of Malaya at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula (excluding Singapore) and Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo. Area: 330,442 sq km (127,584 sq mi). ... Malaysia: Year in Review 1996 A federal constitutional monarchy of Southeast Asia and member of the Commonwealth, Malaysia consists of the former Federation of Malaya at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula (excluding Singapore) and Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo. Area: 330,442 sq km (127,584 sq mi). ... Malaysia: Year in Review 1997 A federal constitutional monarchy of Southeast Asia and member of the Commonwealth, Malaysia consists of the former Federation of Malaya at the southern end of the Malay Peninsula (excluding Singapore) and Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of the island of Borneo. Area: 330,442 sq km (127,584 sq mi). ... Malaysia: Year in Review 1998 Area: 329,733 sq km (127,311 sq mi) Malaysia: Year in Review 1999 Area: 329,733 sq km (127,311 sq mi) Malaysia: Year in Review 2000 The year 1999 was another tumultuous one for Malaysia. Having fired Anwar Ibrahim from his posts as deputy prime minister and finance minister in September 1998, Prime Minister Dato Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad had hoped to consolidate power and put the firing and Anwar's subsequent arrest behind him. It was ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2001 The year 2000 in Malaysia saw the conclusion of the sensational trial of Anwar Ibrahim, the former protege of Prime Minister Dato Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad who had been fired as deputy prime minister and finance minister in September 1998 and later arrested on sexual misconduct and sodomy charges. The ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2002 The ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO), led by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad, began the year 2001 under stress. A diverse new opposition coalition had emerged called the Alternative Front, which included many younger generation Malaysians and counted among its members both Malays and non-Malays as well ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2003 Malaysia's long-awaited political transition was under way in 2002. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad, in his closing address to the United Malays National Organization (UMNO) General Assembly in June, announced his intention to retire. Soon after, he outlined a 16-month transition scenario. Leadership of the politically dominant UMNO ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2004 On Oct. 31, 2003, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad stepped down after 22 years in office. The early part of the year had had all the hallmarks of Mahathir's tumultuous rule. In April he accused educators in the country's Muslim religious schools of teaching hate and ended government ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2005 On Sept. 2, 2004, the High Court in Malaysia ended one of the country's most wrenching controversies when it released Anwar Ibrahim, the former deputy prime minister imprisoned since 1998 on questionable charges. The court, having previously rejected repeated appeals from Anwar, overturned his conviction for sodomy, belatedly citing evidence ... Malaysia: Year in Review 2006 When Malaysia's minister of science and technology announced in August 2005 his government's plan to put an astronaut on the Moon by 2020, the declaration generated little surprise, consistent as it was with the country's record of technological advancement. Despite this latest sign of progress, however, Malaysia continued to struggle ...