Heroic contributions of the Nanqiao ji gong

An extraordinary moment in Malayan history is recorded in a documentary film.

IT is not a piece of pre-World War II history that is familiar to most Malaysians today: In 1939, more than 3,000 young men from South-East Asia, most from Malaya, left their families and homes voluntarily to travel to China to work as drivers and mechanics during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945.