Builders are buying pickup trucks at a rapid pact as home construction continues to rebound.

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Construction of a mass rapid-transit railway is due to start in 2011, but with the number of passengers expected to reach just 400, 000 a day by 2020 it will hardly ease the congestion.

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The tradition has declined however in recent years due to rapid urbanization, scarcity of timber and lack of available construction space, all of which combine to threaten its transmission and survival.

UNESCO: Culture

That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing one person.

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That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing at least one person and injuring several.

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Perhaps the most rapid change has taken place in North Carolina, where a technology and construction boom has sucked in hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, swelling the Hispanic population by more than 1, 000% since 1990.

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