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Asia & Pacific 8 months ago
Hong Kong court finds tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in landmark security trial
The landmark case has drawn international scrutiny of Hong Kong's judicial independence amid a years-long crackdown on rights and freedoms in the global financial hub after 2019 pro-democracy protests that Beijing saw as a challenge to its rule.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
Hong Kong election turnout in focus amid anger over deadly fire
Hong Kong's citizens votes on Sunday in an election where the focus is on turnout, with residents grieving and traumatized after the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years and the authorities scrambling to avoid a broader public backlash.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
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Twenty-two Indonesians remain missing in Hong Kong fire
Twenty-two Indonesian nationals remain unaccounted for following the massive fire that tore through the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Tuesday, as authorities race to identify victims amid widespread devastation.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
Hong Kong orders judge-led probe into fire that killed 151
Police have arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a criminal inquiry into last week's tragedy, and 12 people have also been arrested in a corruption probe. It is unclear if any of those people were arrested on both counts.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
Hong Kong blaze spotlights enduring role of city's foreign domestic helpers
Among people who died in the Wang Fuk Court housing complex fire are some of the city's 368,000 foreign domestic helpers, mostly women contracted from low-income Asian countries like the Philippines and Indonesia, who live with their employers, often in cramped spaces.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
Hong Kong mourns victims of blaze that killed at least 128
The fire started on Wednesday afternoon and rapidly engulfed seven of the eight 32-storey blocks at the complex, which were wrapped in bamboo scaffolding and green mesh and layered with foam insulation for the renovations.
Asia & Pacific 9 months ago
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Two Indonesians among dead in fatal Hong Kong blaze
At least two other Indonesians have been identified among the hundreds of people injured in the fire that engulfed the Wang Fuk Court housing complex in Tai Po district, Hong Kong, one of whom has been discharged from the hospital, according to a statement from the Foreign Ministry.
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