Administrative, business, and commercial centre Shah Alam, population 400,000 and boasting an income exceeding a hundred million Ringgit, is capital city to the state of Selangor.
Besides being a part of Sungai Buloh, Shah Alam has fifty-six sections divided into the northern, the central, and the southern zones. Northern Shah Alam, comprising 18 sections, includes U1, U2, and the Subang Malay Village. Central Shah Alam, consisting of sections 1 to 24, is where Management and Science University (MSU) resides in Section 13; right next to Shah Alam City Centre in Section 14, and close to the state government administrative centre in Section 5. Whilst sections 9, 13, and 14 form the bulk of Shah Alam’s commercial centres, Section 26 houses a factory of national carmaker Proton.
Shah Alam streets are named according to section themes, i.e., Education for Section 1, Flowers for Section 2, Trees for Section 3, Fruits for Section 4, and Birds for Section 6. Sections 13’s Sports theme gave Management and Science University its ‘Off Persiaran Sukan’ in the MSU mailing address.
Shah Alam connects to the main highways of NKVE (North Klang Valley Expressway), KESAS (Shah Alam Expressway), the Federal Highway, and the ELITE Highway. Shah Alam also connects to the national rail network via the KTM Komuter system; with stations in Batu Tiga, Section 19, and Padang Jawa linking Shah Alam to the main transport hub KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur.
The Smart Selangor feeder bus provides free transport to the Batu Tiga Railway Station as well as to the Glenmarie LRT Station. The main bus terminal is near PKNS Complex in Section 17. Shah Alam taxis are blue, in the form of the second national car Perodua.
KLIA, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, is situated 40km to the south of the city, accessible via the ELITE Highway. Also close to Shah Alam is the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, also called the Subang Airport. Malaysia’s main port, the Klang Port, connects to Shah Alam via the Federal Highway beside the railway network.
There are currently eight private hospitals including Private Specialist Hospital of Management and Science University, MSU Medical Centre (MSUMC).
Opened in 1963 to be developed as a governmental administrative centre in place of Kuala Lumpur – a Federal Territory beginning February 1, 1974 – Shah Alam was formerly known as Batu 3 / Sungei Renggam. Situated between the districts of Petaling and Klang, Shah Alam began development, on the advice of a former town planner to the United Nations, with the building of a railway line in 1886; running from Port Swettenham (now Port Klang) to Bukit Kuda and connecting to Kuala Lumpur.
When the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building was completed in December of 1978, most of the Selangor governmental agencies formerly housed at the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur moved to Shah Alam and the city was declared Selangor’s capital.
On the 10th of October in the year 2000, Shah Alam’s city status was officially declared, and the Shah Alam Municipal Council henceforth became the Shah Alam City Council; with Dato' Haji Abu Sujak Haji Mahmud as Shah Alam’s first mayor. On the 23rd of February 2023, the tenth, Mayor Dr Nor Fuad Abdul Hamid, visited Management and Science University ahead of the 3rd MSU International Songket Run.
Received by MSU president Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Wira Dr Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid, the Shah Alam mayor was in talks on materializing the vision for Shah Alam to be a liveable, prosperous, sustainable, smart city.
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Administrative, business, and commercial centre Shah Alam, population 400,000 and boasting an income exceeding a hundred million Ringgit, is capital city to the state of Selangor.
Besides being a part of Sungai Buloh, Shah Alam has fifty-six sections divided into the northern, the central, and the southern zones. Northern Shah Alam, comprising 18 sections, includes U1, U2, and the Subang Malay Village. Central Shah Alam, consisting of sections 1 to 24, is where Management and Science University (MSU) resides in Section 13; right next to Shah Alam City Centre in Section 14, and close to the state government administrative centre in Section 5. Whilst sections 9, 13, and 14 form the bulk of Shah Alam’s commercial centres, Section 26 houses a factory of national carmaker Proton.
Shah Alam streets are named according to section themes, i.e., Education for Section 1, Flowers for Section 2, Trees for Section 3, Fruits for Section 4, and Birds for Section 6. Sections 13’s Sports theme gave Management and Science University its ‘Off Persiaran Sukan’ in the MSU mailing address.
Shah Alam connects to the main highways of NKVE (North Klang Valley Expressway), KESAS (Shah Alam Expressway), the Federal Highway, and the ELITE Highway. Shah Alam also connects to the national rail network via the KTM Komuter system; with stations in Batu Tiga, Section 19, and Padang Jawa linking Shah Alam to the main transport hub KL Sentral in Kuala Lumpur.
The Smart Selangor feeder bus provides free transport to the Batu Tiga Railway Station as well as to the Glenmarie LRT Station. The main bus terminal is near PKNS Complex in Section 17. Shah Alam taxis are blue, in the form of the second national car Perodua.
KLIA, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport, is situated 40km to the south of the city, accessible via the ELITE Highway. Also close to Shah Alam is the Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, also called the Subang Airport. Malaysia’s main port, the Klang Port, connects to Shah Alam via the Federal Highway beside the railway network.
There are currently eight private hospitals including Private Specialist Hospital of Management and Science University, MSU Medical Centre (MSUMC).
Opened in 1963 to be developed as a governmental administrative centre in place of Kuala Lumpur – a Federal Territory beginning February 1, 1974 – Shah Alam was formerly known as Batu 3 / Sungei Renggam. Situated between the districts of Petaling and Klang, Shah Alam began development, on the advice of a former town planner to the United Nations, with the building of a railway line in 1886; running from Port Swettenham (now Port Klang) to Bukit Kuda and connecting to Kuala Lumpur.
When the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building was completed in December of 1978, most of the Selangor governmental agencies formerly housed at the Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Kuala Lumpur moved to Shah Alam and the city was declared Selangor’s capital.
On the 10th of October in the year 2000, Shah Alam’s city status was officially declared, and the Shah Alam Municipal Council henceforth became the Shah Alam City Council; with Dato' Haji Abu Sujak Haji Mahmud as Shah Alam’s first mayor. On the 23rd of February 2023, the tenth, Mayor Dr Nor Fuad Abdul Hamid, visited Management and Science University ahead of the 3rd MSU International Songket Run.
Received by MSU president Professor Tan Sri Dato’ Wira Dr Mohd Shukri Ab Yajid, the Shah Alam mayor was in talks on materializing the vision for Shah Alam to be a liveable, prosperous, sustainable, smart city.
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