I n 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 ...

From there, "we loaded ourselves and the cases of files — this was pre-computer era — onto a fishing boat, and sailed an hour or so to the refugee camp on Pulau Bidong island." Tebbutt was ...

Pulau Bidong, which functioned as a Vietnamese refugee camp for two decades, was first opened to tourists in January 2017. However, this was limited only to day trips. Tourists who wanted to spend ...

Hanh Do (second from the left) with his family at the Pulau Bidong refugee camp in Malaysia in 1981. Credit: Hanh Do "It's amazing, I couldn't believe one day I could meet him," Mr Do said.

He was 22 then, having fled his home in Chau Thanh in Dong Nai with his brother several days before. In the refugee camp on Pulau Bidong, Doan took classes to learn English and auto mechanic skills.

Adrift again for four days, the passengers finally attracted the attention of Malaysian authorities who pulled them to shore and took them to a refugee camp on nearby Pulau Bidong. Phu’s first ...

tells the story of his parents' time in Pulau Bidong refugee camp in Malaysia. But it was also a challenge. "What I wanted to do was create an entry point into the conversation about refugees and ...

KUALA TERENGGANU: Pulau Bidong, once home to a Vietnamese refugee camp, will be turned into a maritime research centre by Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT).

After six nights at sea they finally arrived at Malaysia's Pulau Bidong, a previously uninhabited island which by April 1981 was home to thousands of refugees. As they reached the beach ...