Taiwan Seeks Compensation as Vietnam Factories Restart

Taiwan’s foreign minister urged Vietnam to compensate companies hurt by this week’s violent anti-China riots even as waning protests prompted several manufacturers to restart production in the country.

“We’re asking that the Vietnamese government protect the personal safety and property of Taiwanese people, punish perpetrators and compensate losses,” David Lin, Taiwan’s minister of foreign affairs, said at a briefing in Taipei yesterday. Vietnam’s representative to Taiwan, Bui Trong Van, said at the same conference the country would “handle properly” the issue of compensation.