Developing | Vietnam arrests demonstrators in renewed anti-Chinese protests

More than one hundred people took to the streets in Vietnam’s southern hub Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday denouncing China, only days after earlier protests turned into deadly looting of Chinese factories.

The demonstrators, mostly middle-aged men, started clapping and shouting “Vietnam” at around 9am near the Youth Culture Centre, a Communist Party community service building, in the heart of the city formerly known as Saigon.

Watch: More than one hundred people join anti-China protest in Ho Chi Minh City

Protests on Tuesday over a Chinese company establishing an oil rig at disputed waters around the Paracels were followed with days of violence across one-third of Vietnamese provinces, with mainly Chinese factories and nationals targeted, but other foreign companies also attacked by mobs. At least two Chinese nationals were killed and over a hundred hospitalised.

In Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday morning, a heavy police presence armed with batons and wearing helmets, cordoned off the demonstrators as their numbers rose and they started to march towards the Chinese consulate general just ten minutes away.