- Title: VIETNAM: Vietnamese police break up anti-China rally in Ho Chi Minh City
- Date: 18th May 2014
- Summary: HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (MAY 18, 2014) (REUTERS) POLICE STANDING IN FRONT OF THE OPERA HOUSE MORE OF POLICE POLICE MOVING A GROUP OF PEOPLE AWAY VARIOUS OF SCUFFLE BETWEEN POLICE AND PROTESTERS POLICE DETAINING A PROTESTER CROWD GATHERING PROPAGANDA PANEL ON THE STREET
- Embargoed: 2nd June 2014 13:00
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- Location: Vietnam
- Country: Vietnam
- Topics: Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA8PZDN3WV1S8EZP19O3MLURCR7
- Story Text: Police in Ho Chi Minh City broke up an anti-China rally on Sunday(May 18), detaining some of the participants.
Rallies were planned in the capital as well Ho Chi Minh City to protest the Haiyang 981 oil rig which Beijing moved to an area in the South China Sea
which Vietnam claims as part of its exclusive economic zone.
But Vietnamese authorities were at the rally sites early to disperse the crowds in case they turned violent.
Earlier in the week, rioters attacked Chinese-owned factories and others they believed had Chinese ties in reaction to the deployment of the oil rig.
The government said one person was killed in the rioting on Tuesday (May 13) but a doctor at a hospital near one area of clashes said he had seen 21 dead bodies and that at least 100 people were wounded.
Any sign of popular anger in tightly controlled Vietnam causes unease among the leadership, and anti-Chinese sentiment is especially sensitive. The country has long-standing ideological and economic ties with its giant neighbour, but tensions often arise over rival claims to the oil and gas-rich South China Sea.
Vietnam and China have long sparred over territorial waters in the South China Sea, an area in which which the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan are also claimants. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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