Kuala Lumpur

[ kwah-luh loom-poor ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Kuala Lumpur

/ ˈkwɑːlə ˈlʊmpʊə; -pə /

a city in Malaysia, in the SW Malay Peninsula: formerly (until 1999) the capital of Malaysia; became capital of the Federated Malay States in 1895, and of Malaysia in 1963; capital of Selangor state from 1880 to 1973, when it was made a federal territory. Pop: 1 392 000 (2005 est)

The two carriers are headquartered in Kuala Lumpur but have vastly different profiles and operating philosophies.

The Boeing jetliner had 295 people on board and was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.

For weeks the information coming out of Kuala Lumpur was, at best, inconsistent and contradictory and, at worst, tainted.

This is just the latest example of contradictory and unsubstantiated information from unnamed sources leaking from Kuala Lumpur.

The security scanning at Kuala Lumpur failed to register anything.

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