Hong Kong authorities and professional bodies have stepped up investigations into the city’s deadliest fire in decades and started taking disciplinary action against any parties found to have breached regulations, the Post has learned. The probes follow last month’s blaze at Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court housing estate, which killed at least 160 people, including…
The consultant behind the renovation of Wang Fuk Court, the housing estate reduced to ruins in Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in seven decades, is to close down as experts warn the case highlights limited protection for flat owners under the city’s corporate liability laws. The Hong Kong Association of Property Management Companies told the Post…
The investigation into a deadly fire at a Hong Kong housing estate has centred on the use of flammable material in the scaffolding that covered the residential blocks, officials said on Thursday. Police arrested three men from the maintenance firm responsible for the buildings on suspicion of manslaughter, while the city’s anti-graft agency said it…
The death toll in Hong Kong’s worst fire in seven decades climbed to 83 on Thursday as many remained missing and a grief-stricken city rallied as one with authorities, private companies, charities and ordinary folks donating hundreds of millions to the victims and their families. The towering inferno that tore through seven blocks at a…
A Hong Kong health inspector has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for stealing food samples bought with public money for radiation testing, with French veal stew and Arborio rice among the items seized from his home. West Kowloon Court on Thursday agreed not to jail Lau Shing-hin after the 36-year-old defendant pleaded…
Hong Kong should be very concerned about the recent flurry of cases involving misbehaviour in the construction industry. It would be too easy to write them off as isolated incidents when they could just as easily be straw in the wind, indicating a serious underlying malaise. One high-profile case is the Anderson Road quarry redevelopment…
A three-year plan to improve the governance of the city’s national sports associations was launched on Thursday with the formation of the Sports Governance and Integrity Alliance, which aims to develop Hong Kong into a mega sports events capital with clean and professional governance. The group – comprising the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), the…
The anti-corruption agency has arrested five people, including two healthcare professionals, for allegedly pocketing as much as millions of Hong Kong dollars in government subsidies for elderly community services through fake visit records and sharing funds with the residents’ family members. Matthew Chang Chor-ming, principal investigator from the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) operations department,…
The anti-corruption agency has arrested five people, including two healthcare professionals, for allegedly pocketing as much as millions of Hong Kong dollars in government subsidies for elderly community services through fake visit records and sharing funds with the residents’ family members. Matthew Chang Chor-ming, principal investigator from the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) operations department,…
A former customer services officer with Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific Airways, who spent more than 15 years on the run, has been arrested and remanded in custody for allegedly accepting bribes to help a human trafficking syndicate smuggle travellers overseas. Former Cathay employee Tsui Ying-kit, 44, was escorted to West Kowloon Court on Tuesday afternoon…