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Chinese Developer Under Scrutiny Over Bangkok Tower Quake Collapse

A Chinese construction company is facing questions over the deadly collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper in a catastrophic earthquake (Credit: AFP)

A Chinese construction company is facing questions over the deadly collapse of a Bangkok skyscraper -- the only major building in the capital to fall in a catastrophic earthquake that has killed more than 2,000 people in Thailand and neighbouring Myanmar.

The 30-storey tower, still under construction, was to house government offices, but the shaking reduced the structure to a pile of rubble in seconds, killing at least 13 people and injuring nine.

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