Chinese Land Buys, With Da Nang Residents' Help, Shock Vietnamese

An official in Vietnam's central city of Da Nang has admitted that local residents dodged laws to help Chinese citizens acquire coastal land facing the South China Sea. Speaking to the city's main governing body last week, Dao Tan Bang, party chief of Ngu Hanh Son district, said 71 people were found to have helped Chinese citizens buy 137 lots along China Beach, known to Vietnamese as My Khe. My Khe is deemed by authorities as strategically sensitive in terms of security and...

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