Reporters try to flee as confronted by two guards of a waste treatment firm in Phu Tho on July 22. According to a Tuoi Tre report, the company had just moved 145 tons of “dangerous” waste of Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corp. in the central province of Ha Tinh to Phu Tho. Formosa Ha Tinh is struggling with a public relations disaster in Vietnam after it admitted to discharging toxic waste into the sea and causing massive fish deaths in April. Authorities in Ha Tinh have so far found six sites where the company dumped its waste illegally, including a farm where 100 tons of waste was found earlier this month. It is also being investigated for another pollution scandal involving the alleged illegal dumping of even more industrial waste at various locations.

Source: Thanhnien News July 23, 2016 03:33 UTC