Aborigines clash with cement firm over land (13.3.01)
One Asia Cement official even vowed to kill the Taroko farmers. "There will definitely be bloodshed next time. We'll kill you one by one," promised Chou Wei-kuen (周維崑), a company spokesman…Last year, a local court ruled that the Taroko people had the right to farm the land where Asian Cement's factory sits, but the company's operations continue to this day.
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EPA will fine Asia Cement freighter for deliberate spill (20.6.02)
A freighter owned by Asia Cement Corp (亞泥) could be fined up to NT$1.5 million for intentionally spilling oil into the Taiwan Strait on June 13, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) announced yesterday.
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Something in the air stinks in Hsiulin (8.8.04)
[B]eginning in 1972…Asia Cement entered nine-year lease agreements…and in the subsequent few years the land rights to all but 61 parcels of land were canceled and handed over to the company under circumstances that activists and legal representatives say are illegal…landowners received as little as NT$3,000 in compensation from the company when it initially obtained the leases and later investigations found that many never received any compensation in the first place…At the center of Tien Chun Chou's campaign against the mine are strong suspicions that the cancellations of land rights were obtained through forgery.
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