IN recent years, Malaysia's motorsports scene has gained unprecedented momentum thanks to the high-octane involvement of two ...

HIS Majesty Sultan Ibrahim may now serve as King of Malaysia but his Johorean roots remain firmly woven into royal protocols, ...

AMIDST the country's vibrant diversity, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong stands not only as a constitutional monarch but also as a ...

KNOWN for his frankness and deep compassion for his subjects, His Majesty Sultan Ibrahim, King of Malaysia, has never ...

Photographer: Aparna Nori/Bloomberg Sultan Ibrahim’s family ties with ethnic Chinese date back many generations. His great-great grandfather, Abu Bakar, is known as the father of modern Johor.

Fortune knocked on Wong’s door in 1864, when Sultan Abu Bakar, the first sultan of modern Johor, appointed Wong as the contractor for the Istana Besar, the former royal residence of the Johor ...

The sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar, today appointed his grandson Tunku Iskandar Abdul Jalil Abu Bakar Ibrahim Tunku Ismail as the raja muda of Johor. The sultan ...

So an assembly of monuments more Victorian than Asian command bluffs overlooking the Johor Strait, built to impress. The gleaming white Sultan Abu Bakar State Mosque affords sunset views from its ...

The mosque has a prominent place in the history of modern Johor. The building of the mosque was commissioned in 1892 by the late Sultan Abu Bakar, known as the Father of Modern Johor. It was ...

Five years after ascending the throne, Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar ... for example that his ancestor, Sultan Abu Bakar Daing Ibrahim, was crowned on July 29, 1886, 23 years after ...

Makam Sultan Ali is the burial place of Sultan Ali (1825-1877), who was for a time the Sultan of Johor and Singapore. Sultan Ali Iskandar Shah ibni Hussein Muazzam Shah was the 19th Sultan of Johor.