Formosa: From Beautiful Island to Ugly Nightmare

To the Taiwanese, Formosa literally means “Beautiful Island,” but when Formosa came to Vietnam it became a nightmare for more than 3.8 million people in four of the country’s central provinces

Vietnamese blogger Mother Mushroom jailed for 10 years

Blogger Mushroom”, a passionate activist for environment, social injustices, and human rights issues has been sentenced 10 years in prison. A State Department spokeswoman praised Quynh for “exposing corruption, raising awareness about environmental protection and reporting on human rights violations in Vietnam.”

Vietnam Uses Thugs as Surrogates to Keep Citizens in Line, Report Says

All over Vietnam, young toughs are being employed as a sort of police auxiliary who administer beatings to citizens that the national police aren’t yet ready to arrest

Police-Hired ‘Thugs’ Beat Vietnamese Anti-Formosa Catholics

“Thugs” hired by authorities in Vietnam’s central Nghe An province severely beat a group of Catholic parishioners, including women and children, that had protested the government’s handling of a toxic waste spill

Explosion Rocks Steel Plant in Central Vietnam That Caused Massive Toxic Spill

RFA: An explosion has occurred at Taiwanese-owned Formosa Plastics Group’s steel mill in central Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province, one day after the facility came online for the first time since causing a catastrophic toxic waste spill in April 2016. The official Tuoi Tre News quoted vice-chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee Duong Tat Thang…

May 10 Conference: Legal Remedies and Environmental Impacts of Toxic Waste Dumping in the South China Sea

May 10, 2017: On the first anniversary of this environmental disaster, we organized this conference as an academic evaluation and a call to action to raise international awareness for the following issues:

Vietnamese Church stands up for pollution victims

The bishop and clergy of the Diocese of Vinh have been battling to assist fishing communities in Ky Anh province who lost their work because of an ecological disaster …

Statement of Reverend Nguyễn Đình Thục, Vinh Parish, represents the Formosa victims, at the Taiwan Congress on the 5th of December, 2016

Yours Honorable Chairman, We, the reverends of Vinh Parish, came from the area where the polluted environment disaster was caused by Formosa Company. We are the direct witnesses of the great disaster which the people of Việt Nam have to suffer, at the same time we are also the victims of this man-made disaster. Today,…

PTS Documentary “Dead Fishes in Vietnam”- Phóng sự đài truyền hình PTS Đài Loan: “Cá Chết Việt Nam”

Phóng sự thảm hoạ cá chết tại miền Trung.. (In Mandarin, Vietnamese, and English)

Vietnam protest over mystery fish deaths

Vast numbers of dead fish have appeared across some 200km (125 miles) of coast line … A government investigation has so far found no links to Taiwanese firm Formosa Plastics.