By 1985, 110,000 Vietnamese refugees had settled in Canada. The “Boat People” were internally diverse: they included a variety of social classes and both urban and rural dwellers. The majority ...

Even though the Vietnamese American Service Center in San Jose has been open for three years, it's still hard to put it into a box. "When someone asks me to describe it. What is it? Is it a health ...

In late 1978, huge numbers of refugees began fleeing Vietnam in flimsy boats. Diep Quan was rescued at sea and was among the first of the Vietnamese refugees to arrive in Britain. Show more In ...

A Very British History, Series 2, Whatever Happened to the Boat People? Rachel Nguyen tells the story of the Vietnamese Boat People who came to Britain.

has received a steady influx of Vietnamese seeking asylum. In 1975, one boat alone brought 3,743 refugees to the territory's shores. People continued to leave Vietnam and arrive in Hong Kong at an ...

You just hire a boat from Terengganu. I haven’t been in years, but people still make pilgrimages. Former Vietnamese refugees, Cambodian refugees and even Laotian refugees still make pilgrimages ...