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Between 1978 and 1996, more than 30,000 Vietnamese refugees spent time at a former military barracks on Singapore’s Hawkins Road converted by the UNHCR into a temporary refuge.
When Derrick Nguyen moved to Singapore 10 years ago, it was as if he had come full circle. The American chiropractic business owner had lived in a refugee camp in the city state for five months from 1979 to 1980, after his family fled Vietnam in the years following the fall of Saigon. His father had fought alongside the United.