WHILE the whole country is now celebrating Songkran Festival the large team searching for victims of the collapsed State Audit building continues working and as of 4 p.m. today (Apr. 12) of the total of 103, 35 have been confirmed to have died, with eight more bodies found since yesterday, nine injured and 59
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DSI aiming to file steel and red dust case against supplier to collapsed building
THE DEPARTMENT of Special Investigation (DSI) is looking into filing another case against Xin Ke Yuan Steel Ltd (SKY) which supplied steel for the unfinished construction of the State Audit building that collapsed during the March 28 earthquake after collecting samples of this metal and hazardous red dust during a raid on its factory
Read moreMagnitude 5.95 earthquake strikes Papua New Guinea’s New Britain region
By Reuters – published by Deccan Herald and AFP – published by The New Zealand Herald AN EARTHQUAKE of magnitude 5.95 struck the New Britain region in Papua New Guinea on Saturday (Apr. 12), the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said. The quake was at a depth of 10km (6.2 miles), GFZ said.
Read moreAll safely escape from diving tourist boat ablaze off Khao Lak
A DIVING tourist boat with 26 people aboard caught fire at 4 a.m. this morning (Apr. 12) around 13 nautical miles from Thap Lamu pier at Khao Lak, Phang Nga, and all managed to escape safely, Naewna newspaper said. Upon being alerted of the fire via its hotline 1465 the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command
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