On Air Highlights
Stories of escape from war-torn Vietnam
23 June 2011
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Carina Hoang escaped Vietnam with two of her siblings and 373 others from Saigon on a crowded wooden boat in 1979. They lived in an Indonesian jungle for a year before finally being rescued and accepted into the US as refugees.
Carina has just published a book called Boat People, documenting the extraordinary survival stories of other Vietnamese refugees.
Presenter: Adelaine Ng
Speaker: Carina Hoang, Vietnamese refugee
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