Mass Anti-China Protests Over Oil Rig in Vietnam

About 1,000 people marched Sunday in Vietnam’s commercial capital Ho Chi Minh City, protesting outside the Chinese consulate, while hundreds gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in the capital Hanoi, calling on Beijing to withdraw the giant rig positioned near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

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