Protesters gather outside the Chinese embassy during an anti-China protest in Hanoi May 11, 2014. About 200 people took part in the protest on Sunday against maritime territorial disputes with neighbouring China, a Reuters reporter said. REUTERS/Kham
HANOI (Reuters) - Hundreds rallied on Sunday in Vietnam's biggest cities to denounce China's setting up of a giant oil rig in the South China Sea, a rare protest likely to prolong a tense standoff between the two communist neighbours.
At least 300 people massed in front of China's embassy in Hanoi and a few hundred more at its consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, witnesses said, chanting "Down with China" in protests that expose the underlying cracks in relations between the two political and economic allies.
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