HANOI : A Chinese Visitor

The troubled U.N. peace effort in Cambodia is expected to be high on the agenda as Chinese Premier Li Peng begins a five-day visit to Vietnam next Monday for talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet.

While they are among the last officially communist states on Earth, the two countries only normalized their relations a year ago, almost 13 years after fighting a brief border war. They also backed rival sides during Cambodia’s long civil war and have a dispute over ownership of the Spratley Islands in the South China Sea.