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Setiawangsa is an eastern suburb in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , located less than 4 kilometres from the city centre and located right next to Ampang . Dato ' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak ( born 23 July 1953 ) is the sixth and current Prime Minister of Malaysia . He was sworn in to the position on 3 April 2009 to succeed Abdullah Ahmad Badawi . He is the President of the ___MASK49___ , the leading party in Malaysia ' s ruling Barisan Nasional coalition . The ___MASK32___ ( abbrev : BN ) is a right - wing political party in Malaysia that was founded in 1973 as a coalition of right - wing and centre parties . It is the largest party in the Parliament of Malaysia . Party Chairman Najib Razak has been Prime Minister of Malaysia from 3 April 2009 . In state level , it is also the largest party in the 10 of 13 state legislative assemblies of Malaysia . Tan Sri Datuk Seri Dr Haji Zulhasnan Rafique ( born 20 September 1954 ) is a Malaysian politician and the former Malaysian Minister of the Federal Territories . He is a former Member of Parliament for Setiawangsa in Kuala Lumpur and a supreme council member in the United Malay National Organisation , the main component party in the ruling coalition ___MASK17___ . On 27 March 2004 , following a cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi , the Federal Territory and Klang Valley Planning and Development Division was upgraded to a full - fledged ministry . Its responsibility expanded to include jurisdiction over the territories of Labuan and Putrajaya . Zulhasnan was the first deputy minister to be appointed to the ministry . Tan Sri Isa bin Hj Abdul Samad was the first minister to be appointed . However , Isa was dismissed from office after found guilty of corruption charges related to money politics during the UMNO General Assembly Election of 2005 . Shahrizat Abdul Jalil ( then the Minister for Women , Family and Community Development ) assumed the responsibilities of acting minister until a replacement could be found . On 16 February 2006 , Tan Sri Zulhasnan Rafique was appointed the Federal Territories Minister . Under the leadership of Zulhasnan , a strategic plan that focused on development plans for all three Federal Territories was created . He was dropped from the new cabinet on 9 April 2009 by Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak who took over as the 6th Prime Minister . He was not chosen by ___MASK17___ to recontest the Setiawangsa seat in the 2013 election . He joined the Royal Malaysian Air Force as a fighter pilot and retired in 1985 with the rank of major before enter politics . Malaysia is a federal ___MASK8___ located in Southeast Asia . It consists of thirteen states and three federal territories and has a total landmass of separated by the South China Sea into two similarly sized regions , Peninsular Malaysia and East Malaysia ( Malaysian Borneo ). Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore , Vietnam , and Indonesia . East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur , while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government . With a population of over 30 million , Malaysia is the 44th most populous country . The southernmost point of continental Eurasia , Tanjung Piai , is in Malaysia . Located in the tropics , Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on earth , with large numbers of endemic species .