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‘Holding on to hope’: Hong Kong fire survivors make New Year wish for a home

3 hours ago02 mins

Retired Hong Kong civil servant Ng Kook-yiu takes a shuttle bus every day from his transitional housing flat to the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po. “I long to see my home, where I spent four decades of my life. It breaks my heart to see it each time, but it is still my…

‘Grieving and exhausted’: Hong Kong fire victims call for centralised relief platform

3 weeks ago02 mins

Victims of Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades have called for a unified platform to access funds and resources, as some elderly people say they feel “exhausted” having to travel around and repeatedly provide their personal information to different parties for support. Several people who lost their homes in the Tai Po fire, which had…