the fallout of the new chinese passport(as reported by radio australia at http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/)VIETNAM: Vietnamese border guards 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.
"We do not stamp the new Chinese passports," said an official at Hanoi's Noi Bai Airport, the country's main international gateway.
"We issue them a separate visa."
A border guard in northern Lang Son province said they were also not stamping the new passports, but issuing separate visas to Chinese arrivals.
Even with the new passports, however, "Chinese citizens can still travel normally through the border gate," the guard added.
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