{"id":88501,"date":"2026-09-28T12:36:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88501"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:36:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T04:36:01","slug":"malaysian-ex-pm-mahathirs-wife-siti-hasmah-dies-at-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88501","title":{"rendered":"Malaysian ex-PM Mahathir&#8217;s wife Siti Hasmah dies at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text-primary article-summary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">KUALA LUMPUR \u2013 Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, wife of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/tags\/mahathir-mohamad?ref=inline-article\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"gap-x-04 items-center inline text-primary-60 select-auto\" aria-label=\"link\" target=\"_blank\" data-testid=\"custom-link\"><span class=\"inline font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"typography-test-id\">Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad<\/span><\/a>, died at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 28, Malaysian media reported. She was 100.<\/p>\n<p>She had been married to Malaysia\u2019s longest-serving prime minister since 1956. The couple had seven children.<\/p>\n<p>Mahathir has confirmed his spouse passing away <!-- -->in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Malaysian King Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar and Queen Raja Zarith Sofiah offered their condolences to Siti Hasmah\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201cTheir Majesties pray that the family of the deceased is given the strength, resilience and patience in facing the loss of their loved one,\u201d said Sultan Ibrahim\u2019s Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Upon learning of Siti Hasmah\u2019s passing, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim asked the audience to recite a prayer for the departed during an event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">\u201c<!-- -->May I share some sad news this morning. We have learned of the passing of Tun Dr Siti Hasmah. May Allah bless her soul,\u201d Anwar was quoted as saying in The Star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Born on July 20, 1925, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah was born in Klang, Selangor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She obtained her medical degree from King Edward VII College of Medicine \u2013 <!-- -->a predecessor of the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University<!-- --> of Singapore. Upon graduating in 1955, she became one of the first Malay female medical officers in Malaya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">She married her university classmate, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, in 1956. The couple recently celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary on Aug 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-primary font-tertiary-body-baseline-regular\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">Their enduring marriage has inspired many, leading former Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman and his fianc\u00e9e, singer-actress Bella Astillah, to seek their marital advice on Sept 26 ahead of their upcoming wedding.<\/p>\n<p>This story is developing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/siti-hasmah-wife-of-malaysian-ex-pm-mahathir-dies-at-100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR \u2013 Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, wife of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, died at the National Heart Institute in Kuala Lumpur on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}