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 ...

KUALA TERENGGANU: The discovery of a whale shark measuring about 3m by a group of divers off Pulau Bidong, Terengganu, has provided new data to the country’s marine life conservation efforts.

"We may issue a special permit like Pulau Bidong. We don’t want to trouble tourists, but we want to protect the importance of artifacts in our waters. "We will include a simple SOP that will not ...