One worker died and two others were injured in an explosion while doing pipe maintenance work at a thermal power plant run by Taiwan-invested Formosa in central Vietnam.

Three workers in Ha Tinh died following an accident at Taiwanese steel plant Formosa, which was responsible for one of Vietnam's most infamous environmental crises back in 2016.

Different assessments of the damage inflicted by the marine disaster caused by Taiwanese steelmaker Formosa have prevented locals from selling or destroying their shrimp paste.

The Taiwanese steel plant was found responsible for the burial of 100 tons of waste which contained high levels of cyanide.

The Taiwanese steel plant has restarted operation a year after the disaster as officials said it has met environment requirements.

The former leader of Ha Tinh Province allowed the Taiwanese steel plant to build an illegal waste pipeline that devastated the central coast.

Their irresponsible leadership and lax management led to serious environmental damage.

None of the four was named; but they are to be transferred, face administrative action, warnings or rebukes.

Half of the country's labor exports headed to Taiwan this year.  

The officials have been held responsible for toxic waste discharges that killed tons of fish earlier this year.

Vietnam mulls fishing ban along its central coastline following mass fish deaths last April.

Eight spots where polluting steel plant Formosa hid its waste have been uncovered.

Earlier this month, I met the chairman of the fishery association of a central province which had suffered from mass fish deaths. I asked if he dared to eat the fish.

The Vietnamese government has warned Taiwanese steel maker Formosa not to ever again leak toxic waste into the sea, otherwise, the plant shutdown would be inevitable, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a government cabinet meeting yesterday.

Vietnamese authorities have wrapped up a four-day inspection of the Taiwanese-invested Formosa steel complex in the central province of Ha Tinh on Saturday, following mass fish deaths along the central coast.