HANOI: A Vietnamese court has rejected hundreds of lawsuits filed by fishermen who demanded more compensation from a Taiwanese-owned steel plant responsible for a devastating toxic leak, a leading activist said Saturday.
In a rare case of civic action in authoritarian Vietnam, crowds of fishermen swamped a courthouse last month to file 506 lawsuits against Taiwan's Formosa, which is building a multi-billion-dollar steel plant in Ha Tinh province.
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