- Beijing Sends Five Ships to Retrieve more after Clashes and the rest will be shipped to mainland.
- The anti-Chinese riot affected the coastal region where several have been arrested for being a part of this violence
- Critically injured were sent through charter plane and more ships are sent to rescue people
- The protest was against a Chinese oil company trying to establish a rig in a disputed area of the South China Sea.
- Thousands of workers walked out of foreign owned factories particularly those run by companies from China and there was no attempt by the local police to check the rampaging mobs which burnt factories including a multibillion dollar steel plant owned by the Taiwanese Farmosa group.
- Taiwanese companies were mistaken by rioters as belonging to Chinese.
- Vietnamese authorities stepped in to check the spread of violence only after China protested and asked it to protect its citizens.
- Hanoi sent text messages to cellphone users saying Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was urging people “not to participate in illegal protests that cause public disorder and harm social safety.”
- Read at: http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Article.aspx?eid=31806&articlexml=China-evacuates-3000-from-Vietnam-19052014014039
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