By Ho Binh Minh and Manuel Mogato HANOI/MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged in industrial zones in the south of the country in an angry reaction to Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Vietnam, officials said on Wednesday. The brunt of Tuesday's anti-China violence appears to have been borne by Taiwanese companies in the zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces, as rioters mistook the firms to be Chinese-owned. The row over the South China Sea and anti-China violence in tightly-controlled Vietnam have brought relations between Hanoi and Beijing to one of their lowest points since the Communist neighbours fought a brief border war in 1979. \"I fear a dark chapter in Sino-Vietnamese relations is now being written,\" said Ian Storey, a South China Sea expert at Singapore's Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
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