12/04/2012
Vietnam's state-run energy giant PetroVietnam accused Chinese fishing vessels of sabotaging one of its boats, state media said Tuesday, the latest clash in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.
Geological survey vessel, the Binh Minh 2, was operating in Vietnamese territorial waters Friday when it was approached by a number of Chinese fishing vessels, Vietnam News reported.
The boats "ran up behind the Binh Minh 2, cutting the Vietnamese ship's seismic cables... Many Chinese vessels were operating in the area", company official Pham Viet Dung was quoted as saying in the report.
Dung, who is the deputy head of the exploration and exploitation department of PetroVietnam, added that the vessel's operation was restored to normal on Saturday.
The South China Sea is strategically significant, home to some of the world's most important shipping lanes and believed to be rich in resources. Vietnam has begun exploring for oil in what it claims as its territorial waters.
Dung said PetroVietnam objected to the Chinese boats' actions and said Hanoi must "ask Chinese citizens to respect Vietnam's sovereignty".
This is the second such incident in 18 months, with Chinese vessels accused of cutting the cables of the Binh Minh 2 in May last year, prompting Hanoi to demand compensation from Beijing.
The two countries have a long-standing dispute in the South China Sea over their competing claims to the Paracel and Spratly islands, both potentially resource-rich rocky outcrops that straddle key shipping lanes.
China's increasingly assertive role in the South China Sea has raised tensions with other countries in the region as well as the United States.
Last week, Vietnamese border guards told AFP they were refusing to stamp entry visas into China's controversial new passports which feature a map of Beijing's claim to almost all of the South China Sea.
Other claimants to parts of the South China Sea are Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan.
Beijing has attempted to downplay the diplomatic fallout from the recently introduced passports, with a foreign ministry spokeswoman saying the maps were "not made to target any specific country".
5 comments:
Fake or not fake where are the justice for Sam Rainsy supporters that died serving Sam Rainsy party?
Where are the justice at America and international courts? Or Sam Rainsy is using our death members as passport to negotiate with Hun Sen for the past 15 years.
Cambodian people are questions Mr Sam Rainsy Where are the justice for your supporters at America and international courts? Is it hard for you to sue Hun Sen at America and international courts publicly and transparancy? Or are you still keep using our death members as your negotiate with Hun Sen if Hun Sen block you you cream that you will sue Hun Sen but if Hun Sen gives green light you will stop sue Hun Sen for the past 15 years????
It is sad for our death members that support you Mr Sam Rainsy!
The voice of the death members of Sam Rainsy party,
Thats right, the vietcong oppress khmer, and now the chinese going to bully the vietcong.
6:04 AM is a Dumb Yuon/Vietnamese dog eater who is a fake SRP member to blame Mr. Sam Rainsy. This Vietnamese dog eater @6:04 AM does not stop rubbing the virgina while watching the Vietnamese dog eating masters who play with their penises to get erected in Hanoi.
This Vietnamese dog eater @6:04 AM is worried about losing Hun Sen who will not longer be a leader in Cambodia in 2013. Hun Sen is afraid of his Vietnamese bosses in Hanoi trying to oppress him. Hun Sen is very sick and tired of his Vietnamese bosses who have kept putting pressures on him to hurt his own Cambodian people and he wants to prove the good records of Human Rights for the U.S. Officials and wants to be protected by the U.S. from being killed by his Vietnamese bosses in Hanoi.
2012 IS THE YEAR ALL ALL VIET THIEVE TO VANISH OF THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH SO KHMER PEOPLE CAN LIVE PEACEFULLY AND RECLAIM OUR OWN LAND BACK. THANK YOU CHINA JUST MAKE SURE AIM ALL YOUR NUKE ON VIET AND OH DON'T FORGET TO WAIT FOR ALL VIETS OVERSEA TO RETURN FIRST THAN NUKE, THAT WAY YOU GET MORE FOR YOUR BUCK. THANK YOU CHINA AND THANK HUN THUG FOR CONTRIBUTE THIS TENSION BY NOT NEGOTIATE DURING ASIAN SUMMIT IN PHONM PEHN. ALL VIET THIEVES I WISH YOU ALL: LONG LIVE IN HELL!
Viet, how do you feel when someone invades your territory?
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