(2002 est. pop. 927,000). The state of Trengganu lies along the eastern shore of peninsular Malaysia. It has an elongated coastline of about 250 kilometers facing the South China Sea. Until offshore oil and gas were discovered in 1978, Trengganu was...

Coordinates: 4°45′N, 103°0′E Terengganu (Jawi: ترڠڬانو, formerly spelled Trengganu or Tringganu) is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman ("Abode of Faith"). The...

Can PAS win Chinese hearts? SINCE Malays make up only 53% of Malaysia's population, any party that wants to wield power needs the support of the non-Malays, and in particular of the Chinese, the largest and by far the wealthiest minority. That...

Chinese Minority in a Malay State: The Case of Terengganu in Malaysia. By Tan Chee-Beng. Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2002. 162 pp. This short ethnographic study focuses on Chinese residents of Terengganu, an east coast Malaysian state where Chinese account for less...

Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin was crowned Malaysia's 13th king Wednesday in a traditional ceremony filled with pomp and pageantry, becoming the second youngest monarch.Mizan, the sultan of the oil-and-gas rich Terengganu state, was sworn in at the palace as the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong _...