Nation that never stops moving

Chow Kit Road has attracted many shoppers over the decades, thanks to its vast range of stalls as well as its wet market, which is the largest in Kuala Lumpur.

The Malaysia we know today is a far cry from the little country of hardly six million-plus inhabitants that became independent on Aug 31, 1957.

Back then, the peninsular states that were granted independence as the Federation of Malaya did not have much going for it other than rubber and tin, which made up 70% of exports by value while nearly 60% of the workforce was employed in agriculture and fisheries.