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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Island is a short film shot entirely on Pulau Bidong, an island off the coast of Malaysia that became the largest and longest-operating refugee camp after the Vietnam War. The artist and his ...

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