{"id":88512,"date":"2026-09-28T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88512"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T05:18:01","slug":"siti-hasmah-wife-of-former-malaysian-pm-mahathir-dies-aged-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=88512","title":{"rendered":"Siti Hasmah, wife of former Malaysian PM Mahathir, dies aged 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">KUALA LUMPUR:\u00a0Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, died on Monday (Sep 28) at the age of 100.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She died at the National Heart Institute at about 9.20am, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hasmah was a doctor who used her platform as the former prime minister\u2019s wife to advocate maternal health, family planning, literacy, drug abuse prevention and mental health.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">She had celebrated her 100th birthday on Jul 12. The following month, she was recognised by ASEAN Records as the Oldest Living Spouse of a Former Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Malaysian king Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar expressed condolences on the passing of Hasmah in a Facebook post on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cTheir Majesties prayed that her entire family would be granted strength, fortitude and patience in coping with the loss of their beloved family member,\u201d Sultan Ibrahim posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Mahathir, 101,\u00a0served as Malaysia\u2019s prime minister for two periods &#8211; from 1981 to 2003 and from 2018 to 2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hasmah had been married to Mahathir since 1956 and they marked 70 years together in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/asia\/malaysia-siti-hasmah-mahathir-wife-dies-6414626\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR:\u00a0Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali, the wife of former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, died on Monday (Sep 28) at the age of 100. She&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88513,"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-88512","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\/88512","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=88512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}