Some 2,000 Chinese flee Vietnam to Cambodia: Cambodian deputy PM
Approximately 2,000 Chinese businesspeople and tourists have crossed the Vietnamese border into Cambodia these days to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam, a senior Cambodian official said Tuesday. “Some 2,000 Chinese nationals have fled Vietnam to Cambodia,” Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng told reporters. “We treat them the same as other tourists.” Following Vietnam’s intensive disruptions of China Oilfield Services Limited’s normal drilling in waters of China’s Xisha Islands in the South China Sea earlier this month, protests broke out in some Vietnamese cities and escalated into looting and violence targeting Chinese enterprises and nationals. …
Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-05/20/c_133348158.htm
