Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/06/08
By: Jay Chou, Yang Shu-min and S.C. Chang
Taipei, June 8 (CNA) A fishery official said Monday that an initial investigation has failed
CNA file photo
to substantiate media reports that five Indonesian workers had starved to death aboard two Taiwanese fishing boats in waters off Senegal in Africa.
Huang Hung-yen (黃鴻燕), deputy director of the Fisheries Agency under the Council of Agriculture, noted that inquiries of the nation’s fishery business sector had produced no results that can confirm such reports.
“We have also asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help confirm whether the reports are true,” Huang said when asked to comment on a CNA report from Jakarta.
The CNA report quoted an Indonesian labor official as telling local media the five Indonesian workers had been working on the Bintang Samudra 68 and the Bintang Samudra 11, two Taiwanese fishing boats owned by Hsin Chiang Fisheries or Chi Hsiang Fisheries Co., Ltd. [FULL STORY]
