Shanghai homeowners compensated

Owners of apartments in a collapsed residential building in Shanghai won an important victory over the weekend in their battle for compensation with 11 of them choosing new abodes in the residential complex.

The building - one of 11 in the Lotus Riverside residential complex in Shanghai's suburban Minhang district - collapsed on June 27, killing a migrant worker from Anhui province who attempted to retrieve his tools. Nearly 500 of the building's 620 apartments had been sold at an average price of 14,300 yuan ($2,100) per sq m.

An investigation said mud piled at one side of the building and the digging of an underground car park on the other worked together to pull down the building.