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At least eight people died in Siberia on Saturday (May 7) as fires ripped through hundreds of buildings in several villages, with high winds hampering efforts to extinguish the blazes.

Chulalongkorn University's Universal Design Centre and its partners held the first national academic conference on Universal design on Friday in a bid to raise awareness of making public spaces accessible to everybody.

One of the long standing buildings in Bangkok’s Silom Road, the famous Narai Hotel, will soon be demolished to make way for a new one in its place.

Government buildings such as the offices of Agriculture, Fire Service Department, Forest department and Municipal as well as the office of Union Solidarity and Development Party(USDP) and a restaurant were set on fire after the shooting took place in Saw Township, Magway Region.

GAZA CITY - Sanaa al-Kulak spent the night under the rubble. It was hard to breathe; her leg was trapped. Her son, stuck beside her, managed to get out his phone and call for help. "We tried to hold out," she said.

The owners of 39 “abandoned” buildings at 25 property development projects across the capital have been told to add lights, properly seal off the partially constructed buildings with fencing, and employ guards to patrol the compounds.

IT IS STILL unclear whether the buildings, initially planned as residences for court officials and judges, in Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep forestland will be torn down in response to calls from environmentalists.

Marseille - As many as eight people might have died in the southern French city of Marseille in two building collapses, officials said Tuesday after the first body was pulled out from the wreckage.

Mumbai's Art Deco buildings -- believed to be the world's second largest collection after Miami -- were added on Saturday to UNESCO's World Heritage List alongside the city's better-known Victorian Gothic architecture.

The disputed construction of the Appeals Court Region 5 building and court officials’ residences at the foot of Chiang Mai’s Doi Suthep, near Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, was legal, Court of Justice (COJ) secretary-general Sarawut Benjakul said yesterday.

SAFETY systems in older buildings in Bangkok will come under closer scrutiny to ensure they are ready to cope with emergencies.

ONLY 5 PER CENT of a Bangkok high-rise hit by a fire on Friday was structurally damaged