The collapse of the Bangkok building leads to a meticulous examination of the Chinese company

A single building in Bangkok fell during the earthquake on Friday that rocked Myanmar, hundreds of kilometers away. Recovery efforts continue with at least 15 people killed and dozens of people who are still missing. Determination of the cause could take months.

But interviews with workers who had been on the site, as well as the first official results, highlighted potential problems with the design and quality of construction.

At the center of the meticulous examination is China Railway 10th Engineering Group, a Chinese state company with a dozen other projects in Thailand and whose entrepreneurs tried to withdraw documents from the site after the disaster.

Behind this Chinese company is its parent, China Railway Group – a Chinese infrastructure giant with a gun -up, hunger for new projects and subsidiaries faced with low security accusations in several countries.

Bangkok workers told New York Times that China Railway 10th, which was part of a consortium building the building, underpaid entrepreneurs who turned to lower quality materials and used narrower than usual columns.

Thai officials testing metal twisted ruins have found that he found lower quality steel bars – manufactured by a Thai factory with Chinese owners that the authorities had closed in December.