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When Les Bird joined the Hong Kong Marine Police in 1976, he had no idea that he would be involved in search and rescue for Vietnamese refugees, and nor that getting to witness their harrowing saga from up close would one day prompt him to write a book.
September 02, 2022
In the late 1970s, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Hong Kong by boat from war-torn Southeast Asia. A new book explores what happened next.
April 27, 2022
The world's OTHER migration crisis: Packed into tiny boats and with fear on their faces, photos capture desperate Vietnamese families arriving in Hong Kong after 1,000-mile journey across the South China Sea as they fled end of Vietnam War in 1975
2 December 2021
ASIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS
18 JANUARY 2022
ASIA-PACIFIC BOATING
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2022
Hong Kong books – a former police officer turns author!
4 JULY 2023
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