Thai tycoon and Chinese company charged over deadly Bangkok building collapse

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thai prosecutors on Thursday indicted 23 suspects including a construction tycoon and a Chinese state-owned firm for violations that led to the collapse of a building during a powerful earthquake, killing nearly a hundred workers. The partially built 30-storey State Audit Office tower in Bangkok was the only building to collapse from tremors emanating from the powerful 7.7 magnitude quake in neighbouring Myanmar on March 28. The construction of the State Audit Office building was a joint venture between Italian-Thai Development, one of Thailand's largest construction companies, and China Railway Number 10 (Thailand) Ltd, a local unit of China's state-owned China Railway Group.