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Codenamed Operation Oboe Six, [1] the battle was part of the second phase of the Allied operations to capture the island of Borneo.North Borneo had been occupied by troops from the Imperial Japanese Army since early 1942 following the Japanese invasion of Borneo; prior to this the area had been a British territorial possession.
The 2013 Lahad Datu standoff, also known as the Lahad Datu incursion or Operation Daulat (Malay: Operasi Daulat), was a military conflict in Lahad Datu, Malaysia. [8] The conflict began on 11 February, when 235 militants [17] arrived in Lahad Datu by boat, and ended on 24 March.
The North Borneo dispute, also known as the Sabah dispute, is the territorial dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines over much of the eastern part of the state of Sabah. Sabah was previously known as North Borneo prior to the formation of the Malaysian federation .
The following are the members of the Dewan Undangan Negeri or state assemblies, elected in the 1978 state election and by-elections. Also included is the list of the Sabah and Sarawak state assembly members who were elected in 1981 and 1979 respectively.
The Sabah conflict sometimes called Bruneian–Sulu War and North Borneo conflict was a conflict between the Bruneian Sultanate and the Sultanate of Sulu. Background
A soldier statue in Tawau Confrontation Memorial in Sabah, Malaysia, marking the victory during the battle in Kalabakan, Tawau, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. A memorial in Ansip Ferry, Keningau , Malaysian Borneo, to the Royal Australian Engineers who served in Sabah by constructing a 123.2-kilometre road between Keningau and Sapulut from 1964 to 1966.
After the memorial was opened, an article published in The New Straits Times on 9 March 2000 reported Sabah museum director and Tambunan local, Joseph Pounis Guntavid, as suggesting that "a search and study on Mat Salleh's actions strongly indicated that he was not a rebel but a warrior who went against foreign rule, fighting for North Borneo ...
The 1985 Lahad Datu ambush was a series of robberies and random shootings that occurred on 23 September 1985 when 15–20 [1] [2] armed foreign pirates landed on the coast of Lahad Datu, Malaysia, and stormed the town.