With neighbours like Singapore and Indonesia, it’s almost too easy to consider Malaysia as solely an exotic holiday destination. But with cosmopolitan cities, a high quality of life index and vibrant cultural legacy, modern Malaysia has much more to offer than just luscious landscape.    Commonly imagined as a giant, green, sweaty jungle, the word ‘modern’ is sadly underused when it comes to Malaysia. A cultural melting pot well-versed in

Malaysia’s reputation in the international education community continues to grow, as is the case with Asian in general. However, that is not to say that it sits alone, isolated from the rest of the international student community as a lone island unto itself. In fact Malaysia enjoys links and working relationships with some of the top universities around the world, while their institutions’ standards are monitored by the country’s Ministry of Higher Education.

A brief history of Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur’s origins are relatively recent, going back to just 1857. It was then that a member of Selangor's royal family, Raja Abdullah, decided to open up an area in the Klang Valley for tin prospectors in the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers, which ultimately became Kuala Lumpur. After a civil war erupted at the peak of gang warfare, Kuala Lumpur was rebuilt and repopulated. Farmers were brought in,