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Young Boy Brought To England As One Of The First Vietnamese Boat People Has Won A Place At Cambridge University

1987 , Cambridge (Cambridgeshire)

Cat no. 34409

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School education of Vietnamese refugee boy was supported by actor Yul Brynner.

An Anglia TV news story about a young Vietnamese man who has arrived to start his studies at the University of Cambridge. Richard Chau and his family arrived in the UK as refugees after fleeing penniless from Saigon, Vietnam as ‘boat people’. In 1980 aged 10, Richard won a scholarship to attend Chigwell School, Essex where his fees were partly funded by actor Yul Brynner who was appearing on stage in London at the time. This story opens with two archive film clips shown without sound –Yul Brynner in the 1956 film “The King and I” with Deborah Kerr, and Brynner with Richard Chau aged 10. Richard is seen leaving Gonville and Caius College to walk around the Cambridge streets on a rainy day. Interviewed, he recalls conditions on the refugee boat as unhygienic and overcrowded. He says he owes his education to the late Yul Brynner. Richard will be studying maths and aims to become a financier. The reporter was Chris Young for this video made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

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Universities; Education; Immigrants; Refugees; Vietnamese boat people; School fees; Independent schools

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Young Boy Brought To England As One Of The First Vietnamese Boat People Has Won A Place At Cambridge University

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