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  • BREAKING NEWS: 'Hundreds' of people feared trapped in collapsed buildings...(Taiwan)

    02/05/2016 2:24:09 PM PST · by amorphous · 62 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 5 Feb 2016 | Flora Drury
    Hundreds of people are feared trapped in collapsed buildings after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan. 'Multiple' buildings - including at least one residential block - are said to have fallen following the quake which shook the island at about 4am on Saturday. Reports emerging suggest Tainan, on the south-west coast, was the worst affected, with pictures of buildings partially or completely destroyed circulating on social media, while video footage shows rescue workers wading through water after the mains burst.
  • Chinese envoy attacked in Taiwan

    10/21/2008 8:07:25 PM PDT · by traumer · 13 replies · 576+ views
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7681556.stm Pro-independence protesters in Taiwan have jostled a Chinese envoy to the ground and attacked his car. The attack on Vice Chairman Zhang Mingqing of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait, in the city of Tainan, was shown on television news broadcasts.