Sultan Abdullah Ahmad Sultan Shah Sultan of Bhang State was chosen as the new King of Malaysia for a period of five years.

This came during a meeting held by the nine Malawian kings today under the chairmanship of Sultan Mizan Zine El Abidine to choose the new Malaysian king and his deputy after the departure of Sultan Mohammed V from the throne on January 6.

Sultan Nizain Moezuddin Shah, Sultan of Bayrak province, was again reelected as King's deputy for the same period.

Sultan Abdullah, who became the sixteenth king of the country, was born on July 30, 1959, at Mango Tongal Palace in Pekan, Malaysia. He received his early education at Clifford School in Kuala Lippis in 1965 and then Ahmed Primary School in Pekan 1966-1969), St. Thomas National Primary School, Kuantan, and St. Thomas National High School (1970-1974).

The new King completed his studies at the Dunham Elster-Hertfordshire School in the United Kingdom and the Davis College in London (1975-1977) before continuing his studies at the Military Academy at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom (1978-1979) and the Worcester College - Queen Elizabeth, UK (1980). 1981).