Chinese Ships On Mekong River Attacked
 Four Chinese cargo vessels and one Myanmar patrol boat were attacked by an unknown force on Mekong River on Wednesday.
According to Xinhua news agency on Friday, the unidentified assailants attacked the Myanmar patrol boat and Chinese cargo ships with M-79 grenades in the early hours of Wednesday.
It was not known whether the Myanmar troops on their patrol boat returned gunfires but no damage was reported aboard the Chinese cargo ships plying the Golden Triangle area.
Beijing had suspended Chinese shipping activity on Mekong River, following last Oct's massacre of 13 Chinese crewmembers aboard two Chinese-flagged cargo ships where 950,000 tablets of methamphetamine were found and seized.
The incident prompted China, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand to set up a joint riverine patrol unit based at Guanlei port in southernmost China.
Three Myanmar government troops were killed in a shoot-out with unknown assailants on the international river last month.
That preceded a Greater Mekong Subregion summit between top government officials of China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam held in Naypyidaw last month.
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