Bad business: A woman collecting dead clams on a beach at Ky Anh district, in the central Vietnamese coastal province of Ha Tinh. — AFP
HANOI: Vietnam told owners of a Taiwanese-built steel plant to dig up a controversial waste pipe, even after it found no evidence tying its discharge to mass fish deaths that have triggered health fears and public anger.
Huge numbers of dead fish have appeared at farms and on beaches in central Vietnam since April 6, impacting 200km of coastline, with no known cause of what the government is calling one of its worst ever environmental disasters.
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