Vietnam police break up protest against Taiwan firm over fish deaths

Vietnam police break up protest against Taiwan firm over fish deaths

Source: Reuters

5/8/2016

Vietnam police break up protest against Taiwan firm over fish deaths

Credit: REUTERS/Kham

Vietnamese police broke up a demonstration in the capital, Hanoi, on Sunday when protesters gathered for the second time in a week to denounce a Taiwanese firm they accuse of causing mass fish deaths in central coastal provinces.

Hundreds took to the street in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's second-largest city, last week to vent their anger at a unit of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics, even though an official investigation found no links between the fish deaths and Formosa's $10.6 billion coastal steel plant.

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