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lesbird10
May 25, 20242 min read
Newsletter No. 18, April 2024
Title: The Pigeon Houses at Marine Police Headquarters THE PIGEON HOUSES at the former Hong Kong Marine Police Headquarters in Tsim Sha...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 17, March 2024
Title: Around the World in Eighty Days In 1989 the Marine Police Headquarters building in Tsim Sha Tsui (now the Heritage 1881 Hotel)...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 16, February 2024
Title: Kathy Phuong Luu’s Book It is an honour to be asked to write the foreword for someone’s book. I was privileged recently to be...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 15, January 2024
Title: Hong Kong Society’s Book Fair in London Shots from the Hong Kong Society’s Inaugural Hong Kong Book Festival which was held at the...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 14, December 2023
Title: Flying Flamingo Over the years there have been quite a few collisions involving jetfoils and hydrofoils travelling between Hong...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 13, November 2023
So, there we were, June 1992, out in the South China Sea, miles from anywhere, out of sight of land. It was a stiflingly hot day, flat,...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 12, October 2023
Title: Photograph Exhibition at the EastPro Gallery in Hong Kong These are photographs from a recent talk and presentation of photographs...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 11, September 2023
Title: Wende Museum Book Talk and Photo Presentation Some shots from my talk and presentation of photographs from my Along the Southern...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 10, August 2023
Title: Linh and Connie Sam In 1978 Linh and her five very young children escaped war-torn Vietnam and arrived in Hong Kong on the refugee...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No. 9, July 2023
Title: Royal Geographical Society Field Trip to Tai O Led my first Royal Geographical Society field trip just recently to the historic...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20242 min read
Newsletter No. 8, June 2023
Title: Harry Chan Tin-ming (陳天明) – Hong Kong’s Ghost Net Hunter Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been discarded, lost or abandoned...
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lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
Newsletter No.7, May 2023
Title: The People- Smuggling Ship It was 44 years ago we were last together. On 26th May 1979 the people-smuggling ship, the Sen On, ran...
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Les Bird
Apr 1, 20222 min read
Newsletter No. 6, April 2022
“The Daai Fei” This is good news - Police Vessel 70 is saved PV 70 (centre) in action during a training exercise as a 'smuggling daai...
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Les Bird
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Newsletter No. 5, March 2022
Since the publication of my new book ‘Along the Southern Boundary: A Marine Police Officer’s Frontline Account of the Vietnamese...
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Les Bird
Aug 31, 20213 min read
Newsletter No.4, September 2021
SAIGON 1991. I took these photographs during one of my first visits to Vietnam. The country was, in 1991, just opening up to foreign...
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Les Bird
Jun 1, 20212 min read
Newsletter No. 3, June 2021
The Polaroid 80-Series Land Camera, manufactured in the early 1970s, was part of our kit on Hong Kong Marine Police launches of that...
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Les Bird
Mar 1, 20211 min read
Newsletter No. 2, March 2021
Prior to a Marine Police launch entering active service, the vessel must be commissioned. These pictures are from commissioning...
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Les Bird
Jan 1, 20213 min read
Newsletter No. 1, January 2021
Hello! I was hoping to be able to start 2021 by announcing a date for the trip and guided tour to the Soko island of Tai Ah Chau. I was...
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