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A former marine policeman in Hong Kong, Les Bird tells Kate Whitehead how his decades spent rescuing refugees and capturing smugglers have informed his books.

It was about midnight when Poon Yuen-ching and her fiance, Lo Ping-sum, stood at the edge of Deep Bay. Some 5km away, across the cold waters, the prospect of a married life in the British colony of Hong Kong awaited, free from the poverty and political turmoil wrought by China's Cultural Revolution. The 22-year-old students had trekked nine days to...

In the late 1970s, hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Hong Kong by boat from war-torn Southeast Asia. A new book explores what happened next.

The images feature in a new book by Les Bird, 70, a former marine policeman in Hong Kong who served from 1976 until 1997. Above: Refugees are seen piled into a wooden boat.

Posted on TouchArcade Rating: NOTE: Due to the App Store closure and New Years, there was no Out Now post last week. So this week’s post includes games going back the past two weeks instead of just the past week. Enjoy! Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thu...