Anti-Chinese Riots Turn Deadly in Vietnam

Up to 21 people were killed and a huge foreign steel project was set ablaze as anti-China riots spread to the center of Vietnam a day after arson and looting in the south. The doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979. “There were about 100 people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,” the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone…

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