The governor of Bangkok says authorities are investigating why a high-rise under construction collapsed during an earthquake Friday that otherwise caused limited damage in the Thai capital.

An anti-corruption watchdog had flagged irregularities in the construction of a Bangkok skyscraper that collapsed in an earthquake last week and killed at least 11 people, the head of the monitoring group told Reuters.

Thai authorities have deployed search dogs to find survivors believed trapped under a building that collapsed after a deadly quake in March. But images purportedly showing rescue efforts in the capital Bangkok are unrelated and have previously appeared on stock photo websites since at least October 2018.

Thai authorities are investigating a Chinese-backed firm after a 33-storey high-rise in Bangkok collapsed during Myanmar’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake, killing 17.

Thailand's financial payments infrastructure and services are operating normally after the powerful earthquake that hit Bangkok on Friday, the central bank said on Monday. And the Federation of Thai Industries said that manufacturing and exports had not been impacted by the quake.

A Chicago native who just moved to Thailand to teach spoke with ABC7 about the scary moments she experienced as a deadly 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday.

In the aftermath of the Myanmar earthquake that sent tremors as far as Bangkok, over 1,100 kilometers away, the Office of the Auditor General's building under construction collapsed

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