How Contracting Work Became a Race to the Bottom
The reality of being a contractor includes inexperienced workers, sketchy business practices and low, low margins.
Deccan Chronicle10d
Construction Worker Saved in Building Collapse Dies in Hospital
Kothagudem: Construction worker Challa Kameshwar Rao, who was pulled alive from the debris of a collapsed six-story building in Bhadrachalam ... slabs, and iron rods to create a passage, supplying ...
The New York Times5d
Why Was This the Only High-Rise in Bangkok to Topple After the Quake?
Three workers with experience on several lower floors said the columns of the building were thinner than those they had seen at other high-rise construction ... tests by the Iron and Steel ...
Bangkok Post6d
Jittery workers flee buildings in Bangkok
In response to safety concerns, the Revenue Department instructed staff at its headquarters in Phaya Thai district to work from home. Other high-rise buildings, including Taksin Hospital in Klong ...
ABC News7d
Families awaits news of missing workers at site of Bangkok building collapse
When a 7.7 earthquake in Myanmar sent shockwaves into Thailand, Naruemon Thonglek and Chanpen Kaewnoi didn’t immediately hear it also had collapsed a high-rise building under construction in ...
Phys.org21d
Iron shackles found at Ghozza suggest at least some gold miners during Egypt's Ptolemaic period were slaves
A historian with Laboratoire HiSoMA, Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux, in France, has theorized that iron ... buildings and baths, suggesting workers were paid and lived ...
Reuters26d
Accidents at giant Simandou iron ore project kill more than a dozen workers, prompting inquiry
The level of worker fatalities on the mine's rail and port infrastructure – which is managed by Rio's Chinese partners, Winning Consortium Simandou (WCS) – is unusually high by Western ...
Newsday6d
Families await news of missing workers at site of Bangkok building collapse
BANGKOK — When the earthquake that hit Myanmar sent its tremors to Thailand, Naruemon Thonglek didn’t immediately know it also had collapsed a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok.
The Durango Herald7d
Families awaits news of missing workers at Bangkok collapsed building site
Rescuers get ready for the day to work at the site of an under-construction high-rise building that collapsed after an earthquake in Bangkok, Thailand, Monday, March 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) ...
ITV6d
Construction worker tells ITV News how he survived Bangkok high-rise collapse during earthquake
as ITV News' Asia Correspondent Debi Edward reports A construction worker who survived the collapse of a high rise building in Thailand when the strong earthquake hit on Friday has told ITV News ...
Yahoo Finance26d
Accidents at giant Simandou iron ore project kill more than a dozen workers, prompting inquiry
The 32-year-old was working for a Chinese subcontractor building ... level of worker fatalities on the mine's rail and port infrastructure – which is managed by Rio's Chinese partners, Winning ...