HANOI: Anti-China protesters have set more than a dozen factories on fire in Vietnam in the biggest eruption of rage against Beijing for years over the deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.

China expressed “serious concerns” after Vietnamese workers looted goods and attacked offices on Tuesday in a rare outburst of public unrest in the authoritarian communist nation.

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