Taipei: Representatives of 7,800 Vietnamese people affected by a 2016 chemical spill filed a lawsuit against Taiwanese multinational Formosa Plastics Group in Taipei.
The spill caused by Formosa Ha Tinh Steel, a Vietnamese subsidiary of the Taiwan-based parent company, killed hundreds of tonnes of fish in the seas off four central Vietnamese provinces, the plaintiffs’ representatives said outside Taiwan Taipei district court yesterday.
“The environmental incident affected many Vietnamese residents. It polluted not only water but also soil and air,” Bishop Huang, a retired bishop of the Vietnamese Catholic Church, said. Huang Xin-wen, a lawyer from the Taipei-based Environmental Rights Foundation, said she and other lawyers had visited Vietnam in February and found evidence of several tragedies relating to the environmental catastrophe.
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