Vietnam stops anti-China protests after riots, China evacuates workers (Reuters) - Vietnam flooded major cities with police to avert anti-China protests on Sunday, while Beijing evacuated thousands of citizens after a flare-up over disputed sovereignty in the South China Sea sparked rare and deadly rioting in Vietnam last week. China has evacuated more than 3,000 nationals following the attacks on Chinese workers and Chinese-owned businesses at industrial parks in its southern neighbor. On Sunday, China arranged two chartered flights to bring nearly 300 people, many of them injured, home to its southwestern city of Chengdu, while five ships were on their way to Vietnam to bring out more people, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Sixteen critically injured were evacuated separately, aboard a chartered medical flight in the morning, Chinas foreign ministry said. Several arrests were made in the capital Hanoi and commercial hub Ho Chi Minh City within minutes of groups trying to start protests, according to witnesses, as Vietnams communist rulers stuck to their vow to thwart any repeat of last weeks violence in three provinces in the south and center. reuters/article/2014/05/18/us-china-vietnam-idUSBREA4H00C20140518
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 20:35:43 +0000