Vietnam refuses to stamp new Chinese passport
- Published: 27 Nov 2012 at 19.47
- Online news: Asia
Vietnamese immigration officers said Tuesday they were refusing to stamp entry visas into controversial new Chinese passports which feature a map of Beijing's claim to almost all of the South China Sea.
A Vietnamese official inspects passports near the northeastern city of Halong in 2011. Vietnamese immigration officers are refusing to stamp entry visas into controversial new Chinese passports which feature a map of Beijing's claim to almost all of the South China Sea.
Vietnam has said the computer-chipped passports violate its sovereignty and has demanded Beijing withdraw the documents, which show the contested Paracel and Spratly Islands as Chinese territory.
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