A second “friendship bridge” linking Myawaddy and Mae Sot on the Thai-Myanmar border will be built soon, Myanmar’s Ministry of Construction revealed this week. Ministry managing director U Kyaw Linn said large vehicles up to 60 tonnes would use the new bridge, while the current bridge is for small and medium-sized vehicles. The construction site […]
BANGKOK, 9 April 2012 (NNT) – The Department of Public Works under the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to procure consultants to carry out inspections on Rama VIII Bridge for the first time after 10 years of use. To conduct a full-scale inspection on Rama VIII Bridge, the Department of Public Works is seeking […]
CHIANG RAI, March 24 — Myanmar authorities have coordinated with their local counterparts to seek cooperation from Thailand in tightening security at the Thai-Myanmar border following two explosions at a hotel near the border town of Tachilek, according to a senior Thai army officer. Col Thanadpol Kosaisawee, commander of special forces of the 3nd Cavalry […]
A foreigner reportedly jumped off a railway bridge in an apparent suicide attempt in the early hours of Friday. An urgent call for Police and Rescue Services to attend the bridge located in Soi Neun Plub Wan was made just before 1am and at the scene they found the foreign man lying on the train […]
In the central Philippines, efforts to rescue victims from Monday’s 6.7-magnitude earthquake in western provinces are being hampered by impassable roads and bridges. There are at least 15 confirmed dead. The worst-hit area is the island province of Negros where at least one landslide in a mountainside town near the epicenter is believed to have […]
The death toll from the weekend suspension bridge collapse on the Indonesian island of Borneo has risen from four to eleven. Search and rescue teams continue to look for bodies in the Mahakam River. The number of wounded is currently 39 injured; reports from locals suggest 33 people remain missing at the scene in East […]
SURAT THANI, Nov 26 – Two more districts of the southern province of Surat Thani were announced as flood disaster areas, meaning there were now six districts designated as disaster zones while forest run-off has cut off two bridges in Kanchanadit district. Two districts that were included in the flood disaster list were Tha Chana […]
At least three people died today and seventeen more were injured after a road bridge collapsed on the Indonesian island of Borneo. At least three cars, several motorbikes, and a public bus all fell into the Mahakam River. The bridge was constructed from concrete roughly a decade ago to resemble California’s Golden Gate Bridge, and […]
