Kampar area residents want site of a fierce battle in WW2 to be gazetted as a heritage site

A chimney for a factory built by the Japanese army at Kampung Tanjong Bakong in Malim Nawar, to produce carbide during World War II.

THE JAPANESE Occupation of Malaya between 1941 and 1945 is something 80-year-old Halimah Jaafar Ali will never forget.

Even if the memory were to fade, the chimney for a factory built by the Japanese to produced carbide is enough to remind her of their atrocities, as it is right beside her home.