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Oxfam will also help build shelters on Macau Island, adjacent to Hong Kong, and supply medical assistance to Hong Kong and to Cambodians on the Thai border...
...people aboard, they had arrived in Malaysian waters the previous day and had desperately tried to unload their passengers. One boat was listing badly; supplies of food and water were exhausted. Since departing from Viet Nam five days earlier, the boats had been raided and robbed three times by Thai pirates. Now, as the Malaysian navy pulled them back to sea, the refugees were in a panic. "We don't know what they intend to do with us," one shouted to a boatload of journalists near by. "We don't know our destination...
Scattered throughout Southeast Asia, the refugee camps have taken on personalities of their own. The Laotian camps in northern Thailand are probably the most satisfactory, in part because the Lao are ethnic cousins of the Thais. The sprawling camp at Nong Khai, with 46,000 people, is larger than the provincial Thai capital. Its inhabitants were able to bring some valuables with them into exile; the camp has a nightclub, several silver shops, a produce market, a makeshift gym and an arts and crafts center. Farther south, camps for Cambodians are little more than barbed-wire enclosures. The Vietnamese camps...
...feel asleep. The two fraternity boys in front of me broke out their thai stick, and no one seemed to mind, except two businessmen who were prattling in German and clutching their briefcases as if they were holding babies to the bosom. And I caught a whif too many, and I feel asleep, and I woke up with this feeling, with this powerful sun streaming through the bus window, magnified onto my skull, popping beads of sweat from my pores, soaking my clothes....., loathsome feeling...
...SHOP. But this was too difficult--there is a souvenir shop on every other block in Daytona Beach, and no good fraternity man can render a decision of such discretion at short notice. So they went out to the parking lot of the bus station and smoked some more thai stick...