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Death toll from south China landslide rises to six

​The death toll from a landslide in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has risen to six, as the four missing were confirmed dead.

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At least 2 dead in south China landslide

Two people have been confirmed dead and four others remain missing after a landslide destroyed a building in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region early Monday morning.

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Police lengthen probe into deadly Christchurch quake building

​New Zealand police have extended their investigation into the collapse of a building that killed 115 people, most of them young students from Asia, in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

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Rescuers search for survivors of Lahore factory collapse

A four-storeyed factory producing plastic bags collapsed on Wednesday evening, killing at least 23 labourers and trapping dozens of workers under the rubble at the Sundar Industrial Estate near Lahore.

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China unveils proposal for formulating 13th Five-year Plan

​The Communist Party of China (CPC) has issued the full text of proposal for China's development over the next five years.

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Students in quake-struck SW China start semester in new school

Students of a middle school in a township in southwest China's Yunnan Province that was hit by an earthquake one year ago moved to a new school building on Tuesday as the new semester began.

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Housing headed for oversupply in Australia: report

​A new analysis indicates Australia' s housing market could be oversupplied within three years, according to new economic data.

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College dorm blast injures 7 in NW China

Seven people were injured after a gas blast rocked a student dormitory at a northwest China university on Monday morning.

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14 dead in east China shoe factory collapse

Fourteen people have been confirmed dead as bodies of the last two known buried under the debris of a collapsed shoe factory building in east China's Zhejiang Province on Saturday were recovered, local government said Monday.

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4 dead in SW China building collapse

Four people have been confirmed dead after a building in southwest China's Guizhou Province partially collapsed on Sunday morning.

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At least 10 injured after residential building explodes in NE China

At least 10 people were injured after an explosion ripped through a residential building on Friday morning in northeast China's Liaoning Province, said local authorities.

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Earthquake-stricken Nepal bans new house construction until mid-July

The Nepalese government has decided to impose a ban on the construction of new houses across the country till the end of the current fiscal year which falls on July 15, while the restriction on the building of new homes will continue until it comes up with a new building code and other necessary policies and regulations.

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Mystery fire engulfs Nigerian gov't secretariat

​A mystery fire on Thursday engulfed the Nigerian government secretariat, a massive building that houses most of the country's ministries in the capital Abuja, civil servants and local media said.

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Egypt to pull down Mubarak's ruling building in Tahrir after 4 years of his ouster

​In the heart of the Egyptian capital city Cairo, adjacent to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, near a large hotel and the newly-established underground Tahrir Garage, and a little distant from the Nile River bank at the Corniche Street, here lies a damaged 15-storey building with deteriorating structure and black traces of burning.

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Bomb alert of European Parliament building lifted

The bomb alert of the European Parliament (EP) building was lifted after investigation on Monday, according to the Belgian Police.

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12 people rescued from collapsed building in Kenyan capital

At least 12 people have been rescued after a five-storied building collapsed in the northeast of Nairobi, the Kenya capital, on Sunday night.