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.

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) kelulut and bee research group head Associate Prof Dr Shamsul Bahri Abd Razak said the six islands, namely Pulau Bidong, Pulau Redang, Pulau Perhentian ...