Tun TUN or tun may refer to: Biology * Tun shells, large sea snails of the family '' Tonnidae'' * Tun, a tardigrade in its cryptobiotic state * Tun or Toon, common name for trees of the genus '' Toona'' Places * Tun, Sweden, a locality in Västra ...

Datuk Seri Panglima Sakaran Mohd Hashim bin Dandai (15 April 1930 – 30 August 2021) was a Malaysian

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Biography

He served as the 8th

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from January 1995 to December 2002, 8th

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briefly from March 1994 to December 1994 and

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(MP) for

Semporna Semporna ( ms, Pekan Semporna) is the capital of the Semporna District in the Tawau Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 35,301 in 2010. History Semporna was founded soon after the British North Borneo Ch ...

from August 1986 to April 1995. In August 2021, Sakaran Dandai was diagnosed with

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and admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) at Gleneagles Hospital,

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. On 30 August at 5:30 a.m., Sakaran aged 91, died due to

. He was buried at Makam Pahlawan near the Sabah State Mosque in Kota Kinabalu.

Election results

Awards and recognitions

Honours of Malaysia

* : **

Commander of the Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Malaysia (PSM) – Tan Sri (1990) ** Grand Commander of the

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(SMN) – Tun (1996)

Places named after him

Several places were named after him, including: * Tun Sakaran Marine Park in Semporna, Sabah * Tun Sakaran Museum in Semporna, Sabah * SMK Agama Tun Sakaran, a secondary school in Semporna, Sabah

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