Hanoi: A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic spill that killed tonnes of fish in central Vietnam last year was fined for a second time for illegally burying “harmful” waste, official sources said.
The deadly dump from Formosa’s US$11bil (RM44.8bil) steel plant in Ha Tinh province sparked one of the country’s worst environmental catastrophes, decimating livelihoods along coastline and prompting months of rare protests in the authoritarian country.
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