Tag: the-apartment
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Loan rejection may have been early warning of Taiwan building collapse
By Yimou Lee TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Before their apartment tower collapsed in a Taiwan earthquake at the weekend, a young couple living on the 14th floor had already been given a clue that the building was unsafe. Chen Yi-ting and her husband bought the apartment in the center of Tainan city five years ago,…
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Loan rejection may have been early warning of Taiwan building collapse
By Yimou Lee TAINAN, Taiwan (Reuters) – Before their apartment tower collapsed in a Taiwan earthquake at the weekend, a young couple living on the 14th floor had already been given a clue that the building was unsafe. Chen Yi-ting and her husband bought the apartment in the center of Tainan city five years ago,…
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Carnival roars ahead in Brazil despite Zika health scare
The worst health scare in recent history is not keeping Brazilians from their annual Carnival revelry, with millions of partiers swarming streets and some making fun of the mosquito that spreads Zika and other viruses. “It's one more thing to worry about,” said Juliana Araujo, a 48-year-old schoolteacher at a street party in Rio de…
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Doctors puzzle over severity of defects in some Brazilian babies
By Bill Berkrot and Anthony Boadle NEW YORK/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Experts on microcephaly, the birth defect that has sparked alarm in the current Zika virus outbreak, say they are struck by the severity of a small number of cases they have reviewed from Brazil. Consultations among doctors in Brazil and the United States have increased…