Vietnamese people in Singapore are about 0.3% of the country's population, with about 15,000 residents at least in presence.
The Vietnamese community of Singapore largely includes food and restaurant servicepeople, and school/university students.
Despite this, the Government of Singapore refused to accept refugees, resulting in a policy code-named Operation Thunderstorm.
In 1996, the country's only refugee camp (located in Hawkins Road Sembawang), a former military barracks outpost, was closed by authorities after two decades of running, and the refugees repatriated to Vietnam at the request of the UNHCR.
[3][4][5] Prior to significant waves of immigration or refugee migration in the late 1970s, there was an attempt of singular mass migration via plane holding South Vietnamese refugees in 1975.