Newsletters | Les Bird

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...

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...

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...

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...

Newsletter No. 2, March 2021

Prior to a Marine Police launch entering active service, the vessel must be commissioned. These pictures are from commissioning...

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...