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Mishaps spur rail safety manual
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 14/07/2017
» The Engineering Institute of Thailand under His Majesty the King's Patronage (EIT) and the Thailand Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Tosh) are rushing to publish a rail construction safety manual.
Construction accidents no small matter
News, Surasak Glahan, Published on 08/05/2017
» It was horrifying to see the image of a gigantic crane that recently fell to the ground of the Red Line elevated rail construction site in Bangkok, killing three workers. What's more frightening is the knowledge that five "similar incidents" related to the same project, handled by the same contractor, took place before.
Red Line work halted after crane collapse kills three
Online Reporters, Published on 29/04/2017
» The State Railway of Thailand has halted construction of the Red Line electric railway after three workers were killed when a huge crane used for lifting concrete beams collapsed at a construction site in Don Muang district of Bangkok on Friday night.
The tides of tourism
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 29/12/2016
» During the past 12 months, there have been good and bad things that have impacted the tourism industry. Here is the shortlist of the best and worst situations.
Pain lingers one year after hajj tragedy in Saudi
AFP, Published on 07/09/2016
» MECCA - Despite being emotionally scarred by the death of two childhood friends during last year's hajj stampede, Muhammad Sani has still returned to Saudi Arabia for another pilgrimage.
Mourners identify dead after head-on Italy train crash
AFP, Published on 13/07/2016
» ANDRIA (ITALY) - Relatives of victims of one of Italy's worst rail accidents gathered Wednesday to identify their dead, as rescuers searched for missing bodies from the wreckage of a head-on collision that claimed at least 25 lives.
Super typhoon kills two, injures hundreds in Taiwan
AFP, Published on 29/09/2015
» TAIPEI - Super typhoon Dujuan has killed two people and left more than 300 injured in Taiwan, authorities said Tuesday after it swept across the island before making landfall in eastern China.
Crane collapse kills 107 at Mecca's Grand Mosque
AFP, Published on 12/09/2015
» MECCA, SAUDI ARABIA — At least 107 people died when a massive construction crane crashed into Mecca's Grand Mosque, with scores more injured, Saudi authorities said, days before the annual hajj pilgrimage.
Philippine ferry may have been overloaded, death toll rises to 61
AFP, Published on 05/07/2015
» ORMOC CITY, PHILIPPINES - The death toll from a ferry that capsized in the central Philippines has risen to 61, the coast guard said Sunday, indicating that the vessel was overloaded.
Murder charges in Philippine ferry tragedy
AFP, Published on 04/07/2015
» MANILA — Philippine police have filed murder charges against the owner and crew of a passenger ferry that capsized and left 56 dead, an official said Saturday.