Sandakan Memorial Day service goes virtual for the first time


KOTA KINABALU: The annual Sandakan Memorial Day service to commemorate fallen Australian and British prisoners of war (POWs) and the Sandakan-Ranau death marches went virtual for the first time to accommodate the new norm during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Normally attended by hundreds including those flying in from Kuala Lumpur and overseas, the event at the Sandakan Memorial Park which took place on Aug 15 - the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II - had only a 50 people attendance limit this time.

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