THE Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has accepted the collapse of the unfinished 30-storey State Audit building during last Friday’s huge earthquake centred at Mandalay, Myanmar, with strong tremors felt across Thailand as a special case, TV Channel 7 said today (Apr. 2). Justice Minister Thavi Sodsong, who directly controls DSI and is known
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Test shows larger steel bars at collapsed building are substandard
A SIX-HOUR test of 28 steel samples collected from the rubble of the State Audit Building that collapsed during last Friday’s (March 28) earthquake centred at Mandalay, Myanmar, shows that the larger pieces were substandard, Amarin TV said late last night (March 31). The samples were collected by a team from the Industry Ministry
Read more4 Chinese men nabbed for taking files out of collapsed building
THE Chatuchak district office has filed a complaint with police that four Chinese men had smuggled 32 files out of the compound of the unfinished 30-storey State Audit Office building that collapsed with the force of the massive earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, on Friday (March 28), Amarin TV said this evening (March 30). Pol.
Read moreFierce storm knocks down part of airport’s new building, many roads floods
THE FIERCE summer storm that raged across Bangkok from late afternoon to evening today (Apr. 18) caused the roof and a wall of a new building at Don Muang Airport to collapse while commuters are struggling to get through heavy traffic jams on many flooded roads, Sanook.com and Naewna newspaper said. The violent storm that
Read more5 hurt as chunks of concrete fall off city centre building
FIVE pedestrians were injured, with three of them rushed to the hospital, after chunks of concrete from a 10-storey building in front of Soi Kasemsan 1, Rama 1 road, suddenly fell to the pavement below, Sanook.com and Amarin TV said this afternoon (Jan. 22). Firemen from Banthat Thong station and Pathumwan district office quickly
Read moreMan falls from building while escaping from lover’s husband
A MAN fell off the third floor of an apartment building in Chonburi this morning (Oct. 28) and got seriously injured after being caught by his lover’s husband in their flat when the latter unexpectedly returned early from work upon being given a second Covid jab, Amarin TV said Chonburi police were alerted of
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