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In 1978, the small Malaysian island of Pulau Bidong officially opened as a camp housing over 100 Vietnamese refugees after the Vietnam War. By 1979, some 40,000 refugees were staying on the tiny ...
The biggest news story of 1979 – “shoot on sight” new Vietnamese boat people landing on Malaysian shores – was breaking but the budding journalist responsible was restless. Rajan Moses told the world ...