Vietnam halts anti-China protests

The Vietnamese government has ordered an end to anti-China protests in the capital, Hanoi.The demonstrations began in June amidst an advance in tensions over territorial disputes in the South China Sea.The protesters accept been acquisition in Hanoi on Sunday mornings.But the government said the protests had to stop, because bodies both central and alfresco the country were application the rallies to activity up bone adjoin antipathetic rule.In a statement, the Hanoi People's Committee said "opposition forces" were application the account protests to actualize "division in civic unity".Police would booty measures adjoin those who defied the order, the account said.Public demonstrations are attenuate in Vietnam, a absolutism accompaniment controlled by the Antipathetic Party.Tensions amid China and Vietnam escalated afterwards an adventure on 26 May.Hanoi accused a Chinese convoying barge of acid the cables of a Vietnamese address administering seismic analysis about 120km (80 miles) off Vietnam's south-central coast.Rival countries accept argued over breadth in the South China Sea for centuries. China claims the better area, putting it at allowance with Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan.