HANOI: China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is paying close attention to an incident in which Chinese tourists in Vietnam accused the country’s customs officials of beating up one of them after he refused to tip them.
According to the ministry’s statement released on Saturday evening, a Chinese citizen surnamed Xie sustained serious injuries from being beaten by Vietnamese officials when he was crossing the border to return to China last Tuesday.
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