With its dazzling skyline, Kuala Lumpur ... it has plenty of green spaces to buffer the urban sprawl. Among the city’s green oases is KL Forest Eco Park, a gazetted forest reserve since 1906.

This skyline has also drawn the attention of architecture and design magazine and portal Architectural Digest (AD), which has listed Kuala Lumpur in the top 17 city skylines in the world.

The task before them was as old as Islam itself: spotting the new moon, or anak bulan, which would decide whether Malaysians ...