Mahathir Mohamad
NAME: Mahathir Mohamad
OCCUPATION: Prime Minister
BIRTH DATE: December 20, 1925 (Age: 88)
EDUCATION: University of Malaya
PLACE OF BIRTH: Alor Setar, Kedah
FULL NAME: Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad
AKA: Mahathir bin Mohamad
AKA: Mahathir Mohamad
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
The fourth and the longest term elected Prime Minister of Malaysia was born December 20, 1925 in the family of a schoolteacher in Alor Setar, Kedah. According to himself, his father 's ancestors were probably originally from the Indian state of Kerala, and his mother was a Malay, a native of the state of Kedah. Mahathir Mohamad, however, has always considered himself a wholly Malay and proved himself the strongest fighter for the rights of his people. Mahatir 's father, Mohamad bin Iskandar, was a simple schoolteacher with below average income which meant his daughters could not enrol to secondary school. Moreover, both parents had a children from the previous marriage; Mahathir had six half-siblings and two full-siblings.
Under his father’s control and abilities to work hard helped Mahathir to achieve high goals in secondary school. He even won a position in English competition, being best at English among his peers. Unfortunately, many schools were closed because of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, and he had to work in order to help family, first he sold coffee and later pisang goreng (banana fritters) and other snacks. Finally, when war was finished, he graduated secondary school with flying colours and enrolled to study medicine at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore. After graduating in 1953, Mahathir worked as a doctor in government service before marrying in 1956. He returned to Alor Setar the following year and established his own practice. Next year, He and his wife Siti Hasmah, they first met in medicine college where both studied, had their first child, Marina, in 1957, before conceiving three others and adopting three more over the
OCCUPATION: Prime Minister
BIRTH DATE: December 20, 1925 (Age: 88)
EDUCATION: University of Malaya
PLACE OF BIRTH: Alor Setar, Kedah
FULL NAME: Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad
AKA: Mahathir bin Mohamad
AKA: Mahathir Mohamad
ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius
The fourth and the longest term elected Prime Minister of Malaysia was born December 20, 1925 in the family of a schoolteacher in Alor Setar, Kedah. According to himself, his father 's ancestors were probably originally from the Indian state of Kerala, and his mother was a Malay, a native of the state of Kedah. Mahathir Mohamad, however, has always considered himself a wholly Malay and proved himself the strongest fighter for the rights of his people. Mahatir 's father, Mohamad bin Iskandar, was a simple schoolteacher with below average income which meant his daughters could not enrol to secondary school. Moreover, both parents had a children from the previous marriage; Mahathir had six half-siblings and two full-siblings.
Under his father’s control and abilities to work hard helped Mahathir to achieve high goals in secondary school. He even won a position in English competition, being best at English among his peers. Unfortunately, many schools were closed because of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, and he had to work in order to help family, first he sold coffee and later pisang goreng (banana fritters) and other snacks. Finally, when war was finished, he graduated secondary school with flying colours and enrolled to study medicine at the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore. After graduating in 1953, Mahathir worked as a doctor in government service before marrying in 1956. He returned to Alor Setar the following year and established his own practice. Next year, He and his wife Siti Hasmah, they first met in medicine college where both studied, had their first child, Marina, in 1957, before conceiving three others and adopting three more over the
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