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Why Did the Building Collapse?

Who was responsible for the 127 deaths when the Fuxin Number Two Elementary School classroom building collapsed? School officials, government officials, architects or building contractors? ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Mon, Jun 02 2008

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03 Jun 08 visit Why Only School Building Collapsed in the Vicinity?  »  YouTube videoChina — Parents seething over the earthquake-triggered collapse of school buildings that killed their children are starting to take action. The incipient protests, if they grow, could prove embarrassing for officials worried that a spotlight may ...
06 Jul 08 visit Headmaster, contractor arrested for school wall collapse in SW China  »  People's Daily The headmaster and building contractor were arrested Saturday after a school building wall collapsed and killed four students in southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in mid-June. Four students were killed and eight were inj ...
21 Apr 07 visit Classroom collapse injures eight in southwest China  »  Shanghai Daily ONE teacher and seven students were injured yesterday when a classroom collapsed at a southwest China primary school, local education officials said today.
18 Nov 08 visit Building collapse leaves three dead, four missing in central China  »  People's Daily Three people are dead after a just-completed office building collapsed early on Monday in a prefecture of central China's Hunan Province, a local government spokesman said. Four people remain missing and another four were injured in the collapse...
12 Apr 07 visit Architects propose Shanghai building shaped like 人  »  Shanghaiist We missed this when it was released last year, but we thought 人 ("Ren"), also known as the Peoples Building, but perhaps should be called the Person Building, deserved a mention — if only for its audaciousness. This is just a proposal for a new buil...
20 May 08 visit China: Listing Collapsed School Building  »  Global Voices Myscnu, a teacher discussion board, tried to put together a list of collapsed school buildings in the Sichuan earthquake. So far there are about 40 in the list.

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