"Beijing censors Bangkok high-rise collapse, as Chinese company faces investigations in Thailand" ABC News (USA), 4 April 2025

Beijing is censoring references on China's internet to the skyscraper that collapsed in Bangkok, as the Chinese company involved in the project faces mounting scrutiny in Thailand…

…news of the building collapse has been censored on the internet in China, and searches for related keywords like "Bangkok" and "tower" on Chinese social media returned limited results.

Reports on the building collapse from Chinese state media outlet Xinhua, which spread to other Chinese news outlets, have also vanished.

China Railway Number 10 deleted all posts about the construction from its WeChat account…

"Tofu construction" is a phrase used in China to refer to poorly constructed buildings or infrastructure projects.

The ABC attempted to contact Chinese social media companies, Weibo and Rednote, about the incident being censored but hadn't received a reply at time of publication.

In Thailand, government authorities have launched multiple investigations in the wake of the collapse of the building, a joint venture between China Railway Number 10 and a Thai company, Italian-Thai Development Public Company Limited…

The ABC made multiple attempts to contact China Railway Number 10 and its parent company the China Railway Group, and the Italian-Thai Development Company, but phone calls and emails were not answered…