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Did you know... that Hong Kong director Ann Hui's 1982 award-winning film Boat People depicting life in communist Vietnam was banned in Taiwan because it was filmed in communist China?

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References to the Vietnamese "Coast Guard" are ahistorical

A reference to the "Coast Guard" was included in the plot summary and under "Controversies." According to the Wikipedia article on the Vietnamese Coast Guard, prior to 1998, Vietnam didn't have a coast guard and relied upon its navy to patrol its coast. Vietnam established its coast guard in 1998, calling it the Vietnam Marine Police until 2013, when it officially became the Vietnam Coast Guard. In Harlan Kenedy's 1983 interview with Ann Hui cited under "Controversies," the author describes the film depicting a "Vietnamese patrol boat" firing upon a refugee vessel killing all on board and Hui states that it is based on an actual incident in which two "patrol boats" fired upon a vessel, then circling it to create a whirlpool until the boat sank.^[1]A.T.S. in Texas (talk) 22:17, 19 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@A.T.S. in Texas The reference to the "Coast Guard" is actually referring to the Vietnam Border Guard, which was formed in 1959. DHN (talk) 00:08, 20 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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^ Kennedy, Harlan (October 1983). "ANN HUI'S BOAT PEOPLE — CANNES 1983; ATTACK IN HONG KONG". Retrieved 19 May 2024. The vessel is ambushed and fired on, with loss of all lives, by a Vietnamese patrol boat.

[1] Kennedy, Harlan (October 1983). "ANN HUI'S BOAT PEOPLE — CANNES 1983; ATTACK IN HONG KONG". Retrieved 19 May 2024. The vessel is ambushed and fired on, with loss of all lives, by a Vietnamese patrol boat.

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