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The ground falls out from under Beijing's business district

Posted by Banyue, November 30, 2007 6:33 PM
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Beijing Times
November 30, 2007

The big picture on the front page of the Beijing Times (and The Beijing News, as well) is a sinkhole that opened up under West Dawang Road next to SOHO New Town in the city's Central Business District. According to the article, there were no injuries or deaths as a result of this accident. The cause was a broken water main; water was shut off to buildings in the surrounding area. The authorities are continuing to investigate.

More photos from Danwei readers are included below.

The paper's top headline announces that real estate developers will be punished if they reject buyers who have multiple home loans. This is a joint regulation issued yesterday by the Beijing Construction Management Committee and two other bureaus.

Other headlines:

  • The Beijing People's Congress welcomes its first migrant worker as a member. Chen Huan is part of a new slate of 771 members;
  • Someone posing as Guan Ke, a Shaanxi official involved with the controversy over the South China Tiger photographs, posted a confession to his blog yesterday (see the Danwei story);
  • HIV carriers are increasing in number by 137 people every day;
  • A pregnant woman who was killed in a car accident will be compensated according to the standard used for city residents despite her rural household registration.

This nighttime cellphone-photo was taken by reader Loyola, who calls it the Great Hole of the People:

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These two daytime shots are from Tim Gingrich:

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Traffic on West Da Wang Road, one of the main avenues of eastern Beijing, is expected to resume today (Mon), Xinhua reports. Underground construction caused a collapse last Thursday, severely affecting traffic in the area and breaking a main water supply pipe.

Posted by: David D | December 2, 2007 5:59 PM

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