In the long term, reconciliation efforts and growing commercial relations with Japan helped dim bitter Pacific War memories in Australia.

Their expedition began in Kota Kinabalu at 9am on Nov 21, inspired by the historical Sandakan Death March, which saw the ...

19, 1945. The Japanese administration restored the name Elopura for the town. One of the atrocities of WWII was the Sandakan Death Marches, a series of forced marches from Sandakan to Ranau (160 miles ...

Assistant Defence and Veterans’ Affairs Minister Matt Thistlethwaite commemorates Anzac Day from the Malaysian city of Sandakan. The Malaysian city was part of the Sandakan Death Marches, where ...

KOTA KINABALU: A 35-year-old man perished in a morning fire at his house in Sabah’s east coast Sandakan district on ... incident was classified as sudden death. A Fire and Rescue Department ...

KOTA KINABALU: A Year 4 pupil who died of suspected food poisoning in Sandakan was believed to have ... as well as the cause of death, are still under investigation," said Dr Asits.