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Yen Siow in Oslo Norway after she met her rescuers June 2017

Yen Siow in Oslo, Norway after she met her rescuers June 2017 Source: Supplied by Yen Siow

A former Vietnamese refugee and social entrepreneur Yen Siow met her rescuers on a Norwegian oil tanker after 37 years.


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A former Vietnamese refugee and social entrepreneur Yen Siow met her rescuers on a Norwegian oil tanker after 37 years.


A boatperson's story about using social media to find her rescuers on the oil tanker Berge Tasta in 1980.

 


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