AFP, HANOIA Taiwanese company has been fined US$9,000 for dumping wastewater in a Vietnamese canal, a Vietnamese official said yesterday, just months after another firm from Taiwan was blamed for mass fish deaths in Vietnam. That incident was blamed on Taiwanese steel firm Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp (台塑河靜鋼鐵興業), which was slapped with a US$500 million fine for discharging toxic waste into the ocean. “We investigated the company’s violation based on local residents’ claims.”The official did not say when the wastewater was discharged. In June, Formosa Ha Tinh agreed to pay the heavy fine for discharging contaminated waste, which crippled livelihoods in the central coastal area where fishing is the main source of income. Demonstrators held rare protests in the authoritarian country after the fish began washing up along shores near a Formosa Ha Tinh construction site.

Source: Taipei Times September 13, 2016 15:56 UTC