All eight buildings had been under renovation and covered with bamboo scaffolding and mesh netting since the summer of 2024. Photo: Dickson Lee

    Residents of Tai Po blaze building misled over renovation project, inquiry told

    Residents of a housing complex destroyed in one of Hong Kong’s deadliest fires were misled into picking a convicted contractor for the estate’s renovation project amid “widespread” bid-rigging and other corruption in the construction industry, a public hearing has been told. The judge-led independent committee also heard on Friday that an engineering consultant allegedly accepted…

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