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Wednesday, February 2, 2005

Sydney, Australia —A 16 year old Sydney student was killed when a 10 metre gum tree fell on the tent in which she was sleeping.

Another girl sleeping beside her was unharmed.

The accident occurred at 1:30am AEDT at a campsite near Wombeyan Caves. The girl was participating in an overnight leadership camp with Sydney’s private Queenwood School for Girls.

Severe storms have lashed the east coast of Australia for the past few days.

Monday, June 30, 2008

A building in Iran’s capital Tehran collapsed today and killed at least 19 people. The fate of a twentieth person is unknown.

The victims were all labourers living inside the building, which is reported to have been in a seriously unstable condition for a month, with occupants refusing to comply with evacuation requests. The early morning disaster in the Sa’adatabad district reduced the building to rubble in seconds.

The seven story building was described by The Canadian Press as ‘dilapidated’.

Five people have been arrested, including the owner and contractors. Iranian state media promised that those responsible would be dealt with severely.

Sunday, December 15, 2019

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The {{w|north-south divide in Taiwan|North-South divide in Taiwan}} has been a drag on Taiwan’s long-run prosperity for a long time.

Finally, President Tsai Ing-wen (???) unveiled the Great South, Great Development policy for southern Taiwan as a road map for closing the development gap between southern Taiwan and other parts of the nation during a news conference in Kaohsiung on 14 December 2019, less than a month before Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential election, in which she pinned her hope of being re-elected on the support from southern Taiwanese voters.

Chang Ching-sen, Tsai’s chief civil engineering advisor, added that private domestic investment in Taiwan averaged 4 trillion New Taiwan Dollars every year and most of which had been invested in northern Taiwan. The government, from now onwards, would step up southern Taiwan’s industrial clustering in order to attract more domestic and foreign investments into southern Taiwan, at least more than half of 4 trillions per year, Tsai said, citing semiconductor, defense and shipping industries as major growth engines.

Chang Ching-sen detailed the plan, in which he promised that Tsai government would reduce corporation tax by 20%, cut property tax, and offer long-run preferential loans with a low rate of interest available exclusively for those who invest in the designated industrial clusters in the south.

“We would channel newly-announced capital investments from now onwards into southern Taiwan. “, Chang Ching-sen stressed, “more importantly, we acknowledge that tax considerations are not the only factor in investors’ decision on whether they’re going to invest in southern Taiwan. Therefore, we would greatly strengthen southern Taiwan’s educational position as well as increase its capacity in higher education and research institute to double its in-house talent pool. ”

Chang Ching-sen also committed on behalf of Tsai Ing-Wen to accommodating start-ups in the south with technical/legal assistance in addition to improving the south’s living standard and the effort paid to environmental protection.

The chief civil engineering advisor also reiterated that at least half a trillion New Taiwanese Dollars had been budgeted for financing the Great South, Great Development policy over the next four years if Tsai would be elected, which would make up one-half of the central government spending on local infrastructure.

Lai Ching-te said during the press conference that over the past decades, central and northern Taiwan have led the growth and become overloaded nowadays. This is why it’s time for southern Taiwan to lead the way. He said that southern Taiwan would be expected to become a new economic model featuring Industry 4.0.

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005A team of Australian surgeons yesterday reattached both hands and one foot to 10-year-old Perth boy, Terry Vo, after a brick wall which collapsed during a game of basketball fell on him, severing the limbs. The wall gave way while Terry performed a slam-dunk, during a game at a friend’s birthday party.

The boy was today awake and smiling, still in some pain but in good spirits and expected to make a full recovery, according to plastic surgeon, Mr Robert Love.

“What we have is parts that are very much alive so the reattached limbs are certainly pink, well perfused and are indeed moving,” Mr Love told reporters today.

“The fact that he is moving his fingers, and of course when he wakes up he will move both fingers and toes, is not a surprise,” Mr Love had said yesterday.

“The question is more the sensory return that he will get in the hand itself and the fine movements he will have in the fingers and the toes, and that will come with time, hopefully. We will assess that over the next 18 months to two years.

“I’m sure that he’ll enjoy a game of basketball in the future.”

The weight and force of the collapse, and the sharp brick edges, resulted in the three limbs being cut through about 7cm above the wrists and ankle.

Terry’s father Tan said of his only child, the injuries were terrible, “I was scared to look at him, a horrible thing.”

The hands and foot were placed in an ice-filled Esky and rushed to hospital with the boy, where three teams of medical experts were assembled, and he was given a blood transfusion after experiencing massive blood loss. Eight hours of complex micro-surgery on Saturday night were followed by a further two hours of skin grafts yesterday.

“What he will lose because it was such a large zone of traumatised skin and muscle and so on, he will lose some of the skin so he’ll certainly require lots of further surgery regardless of whether the skin survives,” said Mr Love said today.

The boy was kept unconscious under anaesthetic between the two procedures. In an interview yesterday, Mr Love explained why:

“He could have actually been woken up the next day. Because we were intending to take him back to theatre for a second look, to look at the traumatised skin flaps, to close more of his wounds and to do split skin grafting, it was felt the best thing to do would be to keep him stable and to keep him anaesthetised.”

Professor Wayne Morrison, director of the respected Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery and head of plastic and hand surgery at Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital, said he believed the operation to be a world first.