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.
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