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Bangkok emergency services say a fire broke out at a two-story building in the Indonesian Embassy compound in the Thai capital, but no casualties have been reported.The city’s emergency services say the blaze erupted around noon Friday in a residential building but no one appeared to have been inside.The fire sent out big plumes of smoke that could be seen through central Bangkok.The emergency department’s radio network and Uruphong Fire, a radio network for volunteer firefighters, both reported in social media posts that the fire was under control after less than an hour. Phone calls to the embassy for further information went unanswered.The cause of the fire is not immediately known. … [Read more...] about Fire hits Indonesian Embassy building in Bangkok

“We’re really excited about being able to get started on this,” said Stephen Faber, executive vice president at Related Beal, the Boston arm of New York-based real estate giant Related Cos. The company’s vision broadly complies with “The 100 Acres Plan,” a 2006 City of Boston zoning document that guides development in Fort Point. Related’s project would devote about one-third of its 1.1 million square feet to housing. It would bring retail and public space to the ground floors, and it would include a park that links A Street to the waterfront. But Related also wants to make some tweaks to what the 100 Acres Plan envisions for the site, Faber said, to reflect changes in the market and the city since the 100 Acres Plan was written more than a decade ago. Instead of four buildings on the site, as originally planned, there would be three, with two of them rising as high as 180 feet. They would be aligned differently than first envisioned, to … [Read more...] about Three buildings and a park planned for former Gillette lots

A 15-year-old Esko High School football player died Friday after collapsing on the field during a game. Jackson Pfister collapsed just after 9 p.m. during a varsity game at Veterans Field in Aitkin, Minn. He was taken by ambulance to Riverwood Healthcare Center with what police described as a serious medical condition. The boy, who would have turned 16 next week, died shortly afterward. Jackson was the son of Brooke and Matthew Pfister of Esko. His mother’s Facebook page indicates that Jackson had a congenital heart defect and has undergone open heart surgery. Aitkin police and the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating. … [Read more...] about Esko High School football player dies after collapsing on field

By Le Nam  &nbspOctober 6, 2019 | 05:15 pm GMT+7 A villa built from colonial time in the center of HCMC's District 3. Photo by VnExpress/Son Hoa. HCMC is set to announce policies for the conservation of old villas to safeguard its architectural heritage and stop unauthorized demolitions. The People’s Committee instructed the Department of Construction Management to keep an eye on the city’s nearly 900 villas built before reunification in 1975, and ensure they are not demolished or altered. The Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies has categorized 65 villas into two categories for conservation. The first tier consists of 16 buildings with defining architectural values, which are to be preserved exactly as their original forms. One of the most prominent villas in this category is at 110-112 Vo Van Tan Street. The century-old French-style building was sold to a private date company at $35 million in 2015. The beauty and architectural … [Read more...] about HCMC seeks to conserve pre-1975 villas

Authorities still don’t know why a Lemon Grove man got so angry after an argument that he came back and stabbed the other man to death last year.Gustavo Flores, 39, was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years in prison for killing 47-year-old Juan Martinez, with an additional year in prison for an unrelated, previous case involving an assault with a deadly weapon.Flores turned himself in a week after the June 21, 2018 stabbing and pleaded guilty a year later to voluntary manslaughter and personal use of a deadly weapon.A dozen of Martinez’ family members showed up in El Cajon Superior Court to hear Judge Robert Amador impose the sentence that was agreed upon when Flores changed his plea to guilty. The oldest of the victim’s two teenage sons told the judge their father “was everything to us,” a man who advised them and took care of them.“I still don’t understand why you didn’t think twice before you did what you did,” said Juan Martinez, … [Read more...] about Lemon Grove man gets prison for fatal stabbing after an argument