THE BURNING of a Singapore national flag by Vietnamese protesters, who apparently mistook it for the flag of China, has drawn a sharp rebuke from the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that called the offensive action 'a serious incident'.
Factories in two Singapore-run industrial parks, the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) I and II in Vietnam's south-eastern Binh Duong province, were on Tuesday torched and looted by anti-China protesters.
The violent mob was angry with China for deploying an oil drilling rig in disputed waters near the Paracels, a chain of islands claimed by both Vietnam and China in the South China Sea.
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