Muktita Suhartono

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Why Was This the Only High-Rise in Bangkok to Topple After the Quake?

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono

6 hours agoBANGKOK (AP) — For most of the day, somberness clouded over a makeshift shelter set up for grief-stricken relatives of dozens of workers who remain missing at the building collapse in Bangkok. They huddled together, a short distance from the rubble, awaiting news for their loved ones to be …
Why Was This the Only High-Rise in Bangkok to Topple After the Quake?

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono

Workers said poor-quality materials were used during construction by a Chinese developer as it sought to cut costs. Investigators also said they found substandard steel bars in the rubble. Only one building in Bangkok fell during the earthquake on Friday that rocked Myanmar, hundreds of miles away. Recovery efforts continue with at least 15 people killed and dozens still missing. Determining the cause could take months.
As Rescuers Work at Collapsed Bangkok Building, Those Who Found Love There Await News

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono

All around them, the street where the building entrance would have been had become a community. Tents had multiplied with volunteer assistance, with food for relatives, pallets of water for rescuers and the occasional mental health worker offering support. Each group wore a different uniform: firefighters in red and the police in blue. Mr. Thinkaew and his team wore green jumpsuits with gold lettering. Others wore neon orange or yellow.
Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono |Richard C. Paddock

By Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock March 31, 2025 — 3.15pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Bangkok: When the earth started rocking beneath her home in Bangkok on Friday, Kanittha Thepasak thought she was simply dizzy. Then she heard an odd creaking sound, saw a lamp moving and threw aside a curtain to find cars swaying like boats at sea.
Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono |Richard C. Paddock

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In Bangkok, looking at high-rises with a new sense of dread after massive quake

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono |Richard C. Paddock

1 hour agoCalling it. In The White Lotus Season 3, episode 7, Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) finally comes face to face with Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), the man he believes murdered his father. However, friends, the confrontation doesn't go the violent way we — and Rick's friend Frank (Sam Rockwell) — think it …
After Bangkok Building Collapse, Fearing High-Rises

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Damien Cave |Muktita Suhartono |Richard C. Paddock

Thailand upgraded its earthquake-resistant building code in 2007, and experts said the vast majority of the city's buildings were clearly strong enough to withstand what should still be considered a rare seismic event. Still, some engineers called for greater scrutiny and a potential upgrade in standards and enforcement.
In Bangkok, grim vigils as people seek word of relatives at collapsed building

2 months ago | japantimes.co.jp | Muktita Suhartono |Richard C. Paddock

Aubonrat Setnawet, an electrician’s helper, was working with her husband on the 23rd floor of a new office tower on the northern edge of Bangkok moments before disaster struck. She needed to get some equipment, so she took the construction elevator to the ground floor. Suddenly, she felt the ground sway beneath her and, with two sharp cracking sounds, the unfinished building began to collapse. With her cellphone in hand, she ran to escape the falling debris as a huge dust cloud rose.
In Bangkok, a desperate search for survivors.

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Muktita Suhartono |Verena Hölzl

The air was thick with dust early on Saturday as rescuers scoured the rubble at the site of the high-rise building in Bangkok that collapsed after the powerful earthquake in Myanmar. Rescuers had worked through the night with dogs, drones and heavy equipment to search for the dozens of people still missing at the site, where the building was under construction before the quake toppled it on Friday. "The building came down so fast," said Than Htike, 42, adding that he was still in shock.
Indonesia House passes military law overhaul for allocation of more civilian posts

2 months ago | telegraphindia.com | Sui-Lee Wee |Muktita Suhartono

The revisions were proposed by allies of President Prabowo Subianto, a feared former general who served under the dictator Suharto Sui-Lee Wee, Muktita Suhartono Published 21.03.25, 11:15 AM Student protesters in Jakarta burn a tyre during a rally on Thursday against the passing of a new military law.