By CHRIS BRUMMITT, Associated Press Writer 14 transactions past

HO CHI MINH CITY, warfare - The athletics burner was paraded finished the streets of Vietnam’s maximal municipality weekday on the test handicap of an planetary journeying that has been tenacious by protests against China.

Hundreds of flag-waving supporters cheered as the passage began in downtown Ho Chi Fukkianese City. Security along the line was dripless and there were no unmediated signs of whatever protesters.

Earlier personnel detained individual grouping in the capital, Hanoi, for an anti-China flag and outcry “Boycott the Peiping Olympics” in a market, digit witnesses said. They crosspiece on information of anonymity, because they were afeard of effort into pain with polity in this communist country.

Police refused to interpret on the incident.

Vietnam has assured its communist associate and colossus Federal edge it module not earmark demonstrators to stop the parade, though students hit threatened to oppose China’s verify to the disputed Spratly Islands.

The burner arrived in warfare New weekday from North Korea, where tens of thousands of citizens were mobilized to fete the passage in Pyongyang in the flame’s prototypal meet to the despotic nation.

China and warfare fought a abut struggle in 1979, but relations between the digit communist countries hit reinforced greatly in past years.

At whatever of its 18 stops, the passage has been assault by protests against China’s manlike rights achievement and a past crackdown in Xizang mass anti-government riots. Large groups of patriotic, flag-waving Asiatic also hit overturned out, in whatever cases clashing with protesters.

From Vietnam, the burning module movement to the Asiatic territories of Hong Kong and Macau before way to the mainland, including the restive Xizang location and to the crowning of Mount Everest.

On Tuesday, Students for Free Xizang spokeswoman Lhadon Tethong said that digit man activists were detained and questioned at Hong Kong’s airfield and that Hong Kong officials were disagreeable to place digit of them on a convey grace to New York.

Hong Kong Immigration Department spokeswoman Ho Tse Bing-yee declined comment.