Hanoi decries online posts slamming prime minister

The Vietnamese government distanced itself on Wednesday from angry posts its citizens made on Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook page, saying the platform should not be used to inflame tensions between “good neighbors.” The statement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stopped short, however, of meeting demands by its Cambodian counterparts to “punish” Vietnamese Facebook users who made scathing comments in response to Cambodia’s South China Sea stance. …

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