Flags flew at half mast at government buildings across Vietnam on Sunday, as the nation mourned Fidel Castro.

The national day of mourning was announced by the Communist government, three days after the Cuban revolutionary died last month.

But not all Vietnamese were supportive of the honour, usually afforded to Senior Vietnamese politicians or war heroes.

On social media, some Vietnamese expressed their disapproval.

Vietnamese newspaper journalist, Phung Hieu, was fired from his position for a post he made on facebook about the late leader.

In it, Hieu described Cuba as a poor and backward country, ruled by a dictatorship and Marxist dogmatism.

Officials from the Ministry of Information and Communication raised the post in a meeting with the Association of Journalists shortly after, accusing Hieu of expressing offensive and wrongful opinions about the Cuban revolutionary leader.

Hieu was then stood down from his position of Saigon chief representative, and his editor-in-chief is to be suspended for one month.

– TiVi Tuan-san