A 4 meter by 100 meter section of the unused Hopewell Train platform, running parallel, to Vibhavadi-Rangsit Road, has collapsed on the Bangkhen rail track. The site of the incident is about 100 meters away from Samiennaree temple in Bangkok. Police believe the steel plates which supported the structure rusted due to lack of maintenance, […]
A person was killed and another injured when a Bangkok house being renovated collapsed Monday afternoon. Police said the one-storey house on Soi Ngamduplee in Thung Mahamek district collapsed at 4 pm. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
AYUTTHAYA, Jan 31 – Thailand’s antiquities authorities will speed up restoring the former capital’s historic sites, damaged by last year’s flooding in the city of Ayutthaya, and reinforce weak structures in preparation for possible repeat flooding in the future. Culture Minister Sukumol Kunplome and Somsuda Leeyawanich, director-general of the Fine Arts Department on Tuesday inspected […]
BANGKOK, 16 January 2012 (NNT) – A six-storey building in Soi Arun Amarin 30, Bangkok has collapsed, injuring three people. Authorities believe the soil under the ground has been soaked for a long time as a result of the flood crisis. The Bang Plad district police and forensic officers have inspected the damage caused by […]
More incidents of the Chao Phraya River’s banks collapsing have been reported in Ayutthaya while an expert warned that more river banks in other provinces could give way too after the prolonged floods. Late Monday night, a section of the Chao Phraya River bank collapsed again in tambon Ban Kum, Bang Ban district, not far […]
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 […]
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 […]
The national flood center of Thailand has announced that residents living in northern Bangkok, including the Klong Luang, Thammasat Rangsit, AIT, Northern Rangsit, Lam Luk Ka, Sai Mai, Rangsit, Pathum Thani, and Don Muang areas, should evacuate the area as major sand dikes in Pathum Thani Province have collapsed. Read more: TAN Network
