Flashback #Star50: The birth of Putrajaya


IT was not a case of “moving house”. It was the shifting of a government administration from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya.

A new chapter began on June 21,1999 when the then prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad clocked-in at Perdana Putra.

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