Bangkok, Thailand and earthquake
Digest more
Top News
Overview
Impacts
Bloomberg |
The contractors of an under-construction tower that crashed in Bangkok during last week’s earthquake apparently used substandard steel bars made by a factory that had been shuttered by authorities.
Reuters |
Myanmar's ostracised leader Min Aung Hlaing will leave his disaster-stricken country on Thursday for a rare trip to a regional summit, state TV said, as aid groups called for restrictions to be eased...
Reuters |
"The earthquake has supercharged the suffering – with the monsoon season just around the corner," Guterres told reporters.
Read more on News Digest
2don MSN
The governor of Bangkok says authorities are investigating why a high-rise building under construction collapsed during an earthquake that otherwise caused limited damage in the Thai capital.
The Chinese embassy in Bangkok has called for full cooperation with the Thai authorities’ investigation into the State Audit Office collapse.
Several people were killed in a building collapse and dozens more were missing as of Friday evening in Thailand, the authorities said.
BANGKOK (Reuters) -Signs of life were detected in the ruins of a skyscraper in Bangkok on Monday as efforts intensified to find people trapped three days after a massive earthquake in Southeast Asia that killed at least 2,
Signs of life were detected in the ruins of the 30-story skyscraper that collapsed in Bangkok following the deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck neighboring Myanmar last week.
Large quakes produce shaking at a variety of frequencies. Some waves can travel hundreds of miles, and are amplified by local geological conditions.
12h
VnExpress International on MSN49-storey 'Ghost Tower' in Bangkok goes viral after surviving powerful earthquakeThe Sathorn Unique Tower, a 49-story building abandoned for decades in Thailand's Bangkok, recently went viral on social media after miraculously surviving a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar that shook Southeast Asia.
Far from the manic energy of metropolitan Bangkok, Thonburi is the reflective, meditative, ancient face of the Thailand capital