By Amarin TV and Thai Newsroom
WELL-KNOWN Thai webpage CSI LA which has been continuously revealing information about the State Audit Building (SAB) that collapsed during the March 28 major earthquake today (June 2) posted a message saying that the ceiling at a police building has collapsed just days before the June 5-6 training of Immigration officers, Amarin TV said this evening (June 2).
Fortunately, there were no casualties in the ceiling crashing down at this police building which is on Rama 1 road and not the Immigration Bureau building at Nonthaburi that this webpage had highlighted had become unsafe after the big quake on March 28 but despite this it is still used normally.
The webpage added that no one wants to see good police officers die in this tofu building that was constructed in a half-hearted manner.
“Tofu-dreg project” is a phrase used in the Chinese-speaking world to describe a very poorly constructed building, sometimes called just “tofu buildings”, Wikipedia said.
The phrase was coined by Zhu Rongji, the former premier of the People’s Republic of China, on a 1998 visit to Jiujiang City, Jiangxi province to describe poorly built levees in the Yangtze River. The phrase is notably used referring to buildings that collapsed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake disaster, and the Bangkok State Audit skyscraper that collapsed during aftershocks of the March 2025 Myanmar earthquake over 1000km away.
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Debris from the ceiling that collapsed at a police building’s conference room. Photos: Amarin TV
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