Vietnamese protesters burned Chinese factories in Vietnam because of China-Vietnam dispute over an island in the South China Sea
Around 500 people gather in a park in central Hanoi to protest China's deployment of an oil rig in contested waters in the South China Sea, May 11, 2014
PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) – Over 600 Chinese people in Vietnam have crossed border to Cambodia via Bavet border to escape from anti-China protests in Vietnam where over 20 people were reportedly killed.
They stay at guesthouses and hotels in Phnom Penh, while some others stay in Bavet town, senior police officer told CEN (Cambodia Express News), an affiliate of The Cambodia Herald, on Thursday.
The Vietnamese people have staged protests this past weekend following the China’s deployment of an oil rig in disputed South China Sea which both sides claimed to be in their territory.
The protest turned into violence, leading to property damage and seizures in the factories owned by foreigners.
About 100 factories suffered damage, mostly Taiwanese and Chinese, according to Vietnamese media reports.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Hundreds of Chinese nationals have fled to Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam in which at least 20 people are reported to have been killed, Cambodian police said on Thursday.
"Yesterday more than 600 Chinese people from Vietnam crossed at Bavet international checkpoint into Cambodia," National Police spokesman Kirt Chantharith told Reuters.
"They are at guest houses and hotels in Phnom Penh, with around 100 people staying in Bavet town," he added. "After the situation calms down, they may go back to Vietnam or to other places."
Bavet is on a highway stretching from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's commercial centre, to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh.
Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged through industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam.
(Reporting by Phnom Penh bureau; Writing by Alan Raybould; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
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