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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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May 25, 20242 min read
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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)...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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,...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20242 min read
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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...
lesbird10
May 25, 20241 min read
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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...
Les Bird
Apr 1, 20222 min read
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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...
Les Bird
Mar 1, 20221 min read
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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...
Les Bird
Sep 1, 20213 min read
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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...
Les Bird
Jun 1, 20212 min read
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Newsletter No. 2, March 2021
Prior to a Marine Police launch entering active service, the vessel must be commissioned. These pictures are from commissioning...
Les Bird
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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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...
Les Bird
Jan 1, 20213 min read
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