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At least two children are reported to have died in the explosion, which happened just before dawn in the town of Taiz.

Some reports said a basement near the building was used to store fireworks, but others said the basement held an arms dealer's cache of weapons.

Rebels in Yemen's southern region are campaigning to secede from the country.

Yemen's Defence Ministry said fireworks were stored in the basement, Agence France Presse reported.

The explosion caused the neighbouring six-storey building to collapse and damaged a third.

Yesterday morning at the bottom of the Shanghai market price of construction steel, slightly elevated, but the performance of the market demand is still relatively light, businessmen generally think that hampered shipments, as before the close, the market there are actual transaction fell slightly. Today's opening, the Shanghai market price of the mainstream of construction steel pricing stability, actual transaction spreads widened.

According to the U.S. Commerce Department data released on the 1st, mainly due to expenditure on office buildings and commercial construction spending downturn, the United States in January this year, construction spending fell by 0.6% last month, fell to its lowest level since June 2003 level, which is the United States third consecutive month, construction spending fell.

A spokesman for the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Brigitte Leonie March 2 in Geneva, said that Chile was to take preventive measures to reduce the impact of disasters as a good example. He said that the building earthquake codes implemented to reduce casualties in the earthquake has played an important role.

A spokesman for the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Leonie said that despite the intensity of such a large earthquake in Chile, but only 700 deaths. He said that the construction standards of the shock many people survived.

Dear All,

2010 Chinese Spring Festival NEW YEAR HOLIDAY NOTICE

Please be advised that our Lunar New Year Holidays are as follow:
We will be on holiday From 12th Feb to 22th Feb 2010.

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Best withes to your company and you a prosperous Lunar New Year 2010.

Happy New Year!

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The contact involves expansion and renovation of University Hospital and its largest outpatient clinic there. The construction value of both facilities is estimated at nearly $900 million, with the value of Pasadena-based Jacobs’ contract at $16.8 million. Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said Tuesday that it received a contract to provide program management services for the design and construction of two large health care facilities in San Antonio, Texas.

The 80-page report issued by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration identified "a number of systemic issues that caused great concern" within the state OSHA program.
Nevada's workplace safety program is marred by poorly trained investigators and lackadaisical procedures and is in "urgent" need of oversight corrections, according to a federal report released Tuesday.

To prepare for the night's work, crews may close one lane between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and two lanes between 7 p.m. and midnight. The overnight closings will occur periodically through spring so that workers can set steel for the Intercounty Connector Bridge over Route 29.
Consider Old Columbia Pike, to the west of Route 29, or I-95, to the east as alternatives during the shutdowns. On Route 29, look for the portable message boards to warn about these closings.

A report released on Tuesday by the Citizens Budget Commission reprimanded the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for leaving the public in the dark about many aspects of its construction projects, from the long-delayed Second Avenue subway line to station renovations at Fulton Street and South Ferry. More progress reports and more consistent, concrete timelines should be implemented, the group said.

The Commerce Department released its monthly report on housing starts Tuesday, saying they increased in September by a modest 0.5 percent to an annual rate of 590,000 new homes and apartments. Applications for new building permits, however, fell by 1.2 percent to an annual rate of 573,000 units.