BANGKOK, May 8 – The failure of the steel cable or wire rope supporting the platform carrying workers installing advertising banner on the exterior of Thailand’s tallest building, Baiyoke Tower II, killing three men, was caused by being overloaded, according to the initial investigation. Pol Maj-Gen Anuchai Lekbamrung, deputy metropolitan police chief, released the information […]
BANGKOK, May 7 – Three men were killed as they fell from the 68th floor of Thailand’s tallest building, Baiyoke Tower II, as a cable supporting the platform carrying the workers installing the billboards parted. The accident occurred when five billboard installation workers were on their platform alongside the exterior of the building. Three men […]
A fire broke out at Bon Kai Community in Pathumwan district of Bangkok, damaging about 20 buildings. According to witnesses, the fire may be linked with a dispute from local teenagers. Read more: TAN Network
BANGKOK, 18 April 2012 (NNT) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is gearing up for any possible earthquake which might strike the Thai capital with an action plan while announcing the organization of a talk on how to create a paradise Bangkok later this month. Following the frequent tremors during the past week as well […]
National Disaster Warning Center on Monday said a quake hit Thailand on Monday and the epicenter was in Phuket’s Thalang district. Acting director Burin Wetchbantoeng said that an earthquake of 4.3 on the Richter scale hit in Phuket at 4.44pm with epicenter at Thalang district, while another quake, a 5.4-magnitude, west coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra […]
Local residents in island province of Phuket ran in panic out of buildings and houses on Monday after a moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Indonesia’s off west coast of Indonesia’s northern Sumatra island. The quake struck at 4.46pm Bangkok time, according to Thai Meteorlogical Department. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, April 11 — Thailand’s National Disaster Warning Centre has issued an evacuation order for residents and tourists along the Andaman coast after a huge earthquake struck off Indonesian Sumatra on Wednesday. The quake’s magnitude was 8.6, according to a revised measurement from the US Geological Survey, and it struck 431 kilometres off the Indonesian […]
A foreign tourist died after fire broke out at a three-storey commercial building on Khao San Road early on Monday morning, police said. The victim was identified only as Charlie (surname unknown), said to be a French tourist about 26 years old. Read more: Bangkok Post
