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Bidong Island is accessible from the coastal town of Merang in Setiu district. From 1978 until 2005 Bidong Island was a refugee camp with a population reaching at its peak as many as 40,000 Vietnamese refugees. A total of about 250,000 refugees were residents of the camp during the period of its operation.
After the Fall of Saigon, in 1975 (at the end of the Vietnam War) Malaysia experienced the immigration of Vietnamese refugees. The first refugee boat that arrived in Malaysia was in May 1975, carrying 47 people. [2] A Vietnamese refugee camp was established later in Pulau Bidong in August 1978 with the assistance of the United Nations.
In 2005, after the resettlement of thousands of refugees from Pulau Bidong and Pulau Galang, a group of former boat refugees returned to commemorate their experiences at the camps. Two memorials were erected in honor of those who had perished during their journey and expressed gratitude towards the assistance they had received from local ...
Lisa Dam fled Vietnam in 1978 with 50 other people, only to find themselves lost in the South China Sea, adrift on a fishing boat. How a sailor reunited with the Vietnamese refugees he helped ...
A proper welcome: Rep. Khanh Pham (House District 46), who was born to Vietnamese refugee parents, is among the leaders of the task force that will manage the resettlement of 1,200 refugees from ...
Pulau Bidong's refugee camp was later closed in 1991. In May 1975, shortly after the Fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War, the first Vietnamese refugees arrived in Malaysia, and the first boat that arrived carried 47 refugees. [27] Until 1978, more Vietnamese fled their country, and many of them were of Chinese descent.
On April 30, 1975, Thanh Duong scaled the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam. Vietnamese American refugees who witnessed fall of Saigon urge U.S. to accept more Afghans Skip ...
MRC was in charge of providing all facilities for the care and maintenance of Vietnamese Boat People (VBP) since the first landing on 4 May 1975 of 47 VBP on Pulau Bidong, a small island off the northeast coast of the Malay Peninsula. Since then, over a continuous period of 19 years more than 250,000 VBP have landed in Malaysia.