Dead fish in Vietnam over the summer. After weeks of silence, officials acknowledged in June that Formosa, which owns a steel factory in the central province of Ha Tinh, had caused the deaths by leaking chemicals into the South China Sea. Credit Chi Nam/Chi Nam, via Associated Press
HONG KONG — Six months after a chemical spill killed tons of fish and devastated fishing communities along Vietnam’s central coast, anger over the episode is still raw, posing a challenge for a government that has struggled to address it.
In the latest sign of this festering outrage, thousands of demonstrators swarmed a steel factory in the central province of Ha Tinh on Sunday, echoing the street protests that erupted in the country’s major cities in April when photographs of piled-up fish corpses were widely shared on social media.
