Chinese company completes drilling off Vietnam

(AGI) Beijing, July 16 - China National Petroleum Corporation,the country's main oil and gas producer, has finished drillingoperations near the Paracel islands, in contested waters in theSouth China Sea off Vietnam, the company announced on itswebsite late Tuesday evening. The Vietnamese media has calledthe operation an "illegal" act because it took place in an areaHanoi considers within its territorial waters. . .