PHUKET: An unidentified Thai man died instantly after a fall from an eight-story OTOP building in Patong area of Kathu district in this southern island resort province on Sunday morning. Pol Col Anothai Jindamanee, the Patong police chief, said the man, aged about 25-30, was said to have jumped from the building on Sunday morning […]
PHUKET: Rescue workers today finally called off the search for more bodies in rubble of the resort building under construction that collapsed yesterday after recovering the bodies of the two missing Myanmar workers this morning (Aug 12). Rescue workers, who laboured through the rubble all through the night, recovered the body of Min Naing at […]
The death toll rose to 21 on Sunday from the collapse of an under-construction building in the Cambodian coastal town of Sihanoukville, officials said, as rescue workers scoured the rubble of the Chinese-owned project for survivors among the estimated 25 people missing. Spokesman Kheang Phearum of Preah Sihanouk province told RFA’s Khmer Service that about […]
A female worker was killed when she accidentally fell from a building under construction in Bangkok’s Bang Sue district on Thursday. Jenjira Jenjunthuek, 30, died after she fell from the 15th floor of the site on Pradiphat Road in Sam Sen Nai subdistrict. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
A 51-year-old British man allegedly threatened to jump from his room on the ninth floor of a Phuket building on Saturday afternoon following a dispute over rent with his landlord before provincial officials intervened to resolve the situation. After talks with Britain’s honorary consul general in Phuket did not lead to the tenant leaving his […]
District authorities have ordered a contractor to halt the demolition of a commercial building in Bangkok after it partially collapsed and injured two people. Part of the building between Soi 51/1 and Soi 51/2 on Ramkhamhaeng Road in Bangkok came down on Monday afternoon. Two women, aged 54 and 23, were wounded by the debris. […]
At least eight people were killed and dozens remain unaccounted for after a suspected gas explosion triggered the collapse of a section of a high-rise apartment building in the Russian city of Magnitogorsk early on New Year’s Eve. Rescue operations have been temporarily halted because of fears the efforts would shift rubble and cause more […]
BANGKOK, Dec 28 (TNA)- Thailand bids farewell to the historic Parliament House that has been the legislative seat of power for over 40 years before relocation to a new complex. The Parliament House compound consisting three building was built and first used by legislative assembly in 1974. Full story: tnamcot.com TNA
