Anti-China protesters burn factories in Nam

[Alenceo Bao Studs]

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Anti-China protesters have set more than a dozen factories on fire in Vietnam, state media says, in an escalating backlash against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.
Workers looted goods and attacked offices in a rare outburst of public unrest on Tuesday in the authoritarian communist nation, which allowed mass anti-China rallies around Vietnam at the weekend.
The protesters targeted manufacturing companies that are owned or managed by Chinese as well as Chinese workers in Binh Duong province, the Vietnam Singapore Industrial Park said in a statement.
There were no reports of casualties.
Tens of thousands of workers poured on to the streets on Tuesday and a small number of them began looting and attacking security guards and factory management before setting fire to at least 15 factories, the state-run VNExpress website reported.
Videos and images posted on dissident blogs showed thousands of workers, many waving the Vietnamese flag, destroying factory gates and pouring into compounds and causing widespread destruction of property.
A number of Taiwanese, Japanese and South Korean businesses have shut their plants for the day, giving workers the day off, and have hung Vietnamese flags outside their business in a bid to deter looters, VNExpress added.
Hanoi's Ministry of Public Security has deployed rapid-response riot police to the area to reinforce local security staff and prevent further unrest, VNExpress said.
"There will be serious punishment for those who abused the situation to instigate unrest," local official Tran Van Nam was quoted as saying.
Taiwan condemned the violence and said it had urged Vietnam to guarantee the safety of Taiwanese nationals in the area.
"We urge the Vietnamese people to exercise restraint and not to take violent and non-rational actions as this would affect Taiwanese businessmen's willingness to invest," Foreign Minister David Lin said.
China and Vietnam are locked in long-standing territorial disputes in the South China Sea over the Paracel and Spratly islands, which both claim.
There have been repeated skirmishes near the oil rig in recent days involving vessels from the two countries, with collisions and the use of water cannon.

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Anti-China protesters burn factories

[pointman]

mga bogo! sila ray ni patay sa ilang economy. hahaha! to-o siguro nila mabuhi sila kung hutdon nila og sunog tanan factory.

[trabiz]

Goodluck sa mga nag sunog sa factories. Mas maka cause silag more problem ana. tsk.

[kit_cebu]

kamong naas taas, don't you think mas maayo na compared sa mag-protest diri sa pinas VS US?
US ang dakong tabang diri sa ato...

ang china mas daghang bati gi-buhat sa pinas ang insik komparar sa vitkong...nya ang protestahan ra kay ang US?

see the TWISTED part of this country is?

[MrTuthaus]

Greedy Chinese!!

[lstorya]

Hahahahahahahahah, idol-a dyud aning mga vietcong oi! Mayta patubuan sad og spine ning mga ubang pinoy oi, mapareha ana nila. Killing their economy? I highly doubt that. Kompara diri sa Pilipinas nga intsik gadaug daug unya ang mga kano maoy protestahan, mga bugoon.

[CoolUkoy]

Although I do not agree with the action taken by the Vietnamese, just compare it with the reaction or inaction of Filipinos to what China is doing in our territorial claims - blocking resupply efforts to our marines stationed at Ayungin, poaching, and lately doing some earthmoving activities (probably an airstrip) at one of the reefs (Mabini? can't be sure). The Vietnamese have a better sense of patriotism than us Filipinos (or are they just more informed more than us? We seem to care more about Vhong Navarro or know more about Kris Aquino's love life). Also, the Chinese did the same to Japanese companies.

[WhenFatKidAttacks]

The unrest clearly was spread across workers from various foreign owned factories, and why indeed, would Vietnamese workers risk their jobs and perhaps liberty from jail to get violent over who profits from oil in the china sea.

[<SMILE>]

vis-a-vis they gain the oil deposits off vietnam shores,
and lose their investment inland.
A good riddance of China's greed.

[firestarter]

Obvious ang mga communista magwelga dayon batok US...

Ayaw nalang ta.