These problems first took root as China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain, in 1997. Concerned that the ...

Dark smoke was rising nearly 24 hours after the blaze engulfed the apartment complex. More than 270 people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on ...

The fire has stirred emotions that will not be easily contained.

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong leader John Lee has said that 36 people were reported killed in the fire that spread through a dense high-rise residential housing complex Wednesday, and that another 279 ...

Hong Kong authorities say they want a transparent investigation into a deadly building fire. They also have been arresting and detaining people who question why the fire was so deadly.

HONG KONG — The deadly inferno that tore through a high-rise housing estate in Hong Kong killed at least 128 people, authorities said Friday, with dozens of residents still feared trapped on upper ...

The death toll from the Hong Kong high-rise fire this week has risen to 128, while around 200 people remain missing The fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong's northern Tai Po district on ...

HONG KONG — A huge fire still burning in a Hong Kong residential apartment complex that has killed at least 44 people and left almost 300 missing may have been spread by unsafe scaffolding and foam ...

All residents of the Wang Fuk Court complex, numbering more than 4,000, were displaced by the blaze. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades has raised questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died. An intense fire broke out at Wang ...

Officials had cast Mr. Lai, a pro-democracy media tycoon, as the mastermind of protests that roiled the city in 2019. He ...