MALAYSIA Viet refugee memorial to be torn down Malaysia will tear down a memorial commemorating Vietnamese refugees who died fleeing communist rule after a protest from Hanoi, a report said today. The memorial was built in March by a group of former Vietnamese refugees on the northeastern island of Bidong in Terengganu state, the Star daily in Kuala Lumpur reported. They were among thousands of Vietnamese who arrived in fishing boats on Bidong in the 1970s after the Vietnam War. Thousands of others died while trying to make the voyage from Vietnam across the South China Sea to Bidong and...