Taiwanese investigators have arrested the developer of a 17-story apartment building that collapsed in an earthquake at the beginning of the month. Approximately 40 people were killed when the building collapsed, there were only two other deaths in the entire city. The charges are suspicion of criminal business misconduct resulting in fatalities. Mainland China has been notorious for shoddy construction practices, and those practices have been blamed for the death of thousands in Sichuan Province during the 2008 earthquake. [Source: The New York Times via Geoengineer.org. Image: Anthony Wallace/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images via NY Times]
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