Saturday, December 27, 2008

Second Chinese Collapse For MSM Monitor

Related: China Collapses MSM Monitor

Same reason this one goes up, folks
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A father held a photo of his daughter, who was killed in the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Wufu, in China's Sichuan Province, during the earthquake in May.
A father held a photo of his daughter, who was killed in the Fuxin No. 2 Primary School in Wufu, in China's Sichuan Province, during the earthquake in May. (Greg Baker/Associated Press/File)

"Chinese officials acknowledge school construction failings; Many crushed in buildings during May earthquake" by Andrew Jacobs, New York Times | December 27, 2008

BEIJING - .... The Ministry of Education report is a rare government admission about substandard school construction. The issue has been a sensitive one since May, when an earthquake in Sichuan Province killed 88,000 people, many of them children crushed in the rubble of shoddily built schools....

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Yesterday morning, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake shook Yunnan Province, injuring nine people, according to Xinhua, the official news agency. In Sichuan, many parents of students killed in May continue to press their demands for an investigation into the widespread school collapses. Earlier this month, a group of parents whose children died at a primary school in Fuxin filed a lawsuit against government officials and a construction contractor. The suit, filed Dec. 1, asked for $1.1 million in damages and a public apology....

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