15 h. ago Hong Kong fire: authorities seek to dissolve Wang Fuk Court owners’ committee

Hong Kong authorities are seeking to dissolve the management committee of the Wang Fuk Court owners’ corporation and appoint a new property management company for the residential estate, in an unprecedented move following the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen said on Friday that the government was intervening for the first time on record in a residential estate’s affairs by applying to the Lands Tribunal to dissolve the management committee...

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17 h. ago Hong Kong court orders trial to compensate Mo Li, dancer paralysed in Mirror show

A Hong Kong court has ordered a trial to determine the compensation sum to be paid to a dancer by his employer, after he was paralysed from the neck down in an accident at a concert featuring the popular boy band Mirror. District Court judge Phillis Loh Lai-ping said on Friday she believed that Studiodanz, Mo Li Kai-yin’s employer at the time of the accident, was “evading civil responsibility” as its representatives had failed to attend any hearings in the case and had been uncontactable. Loh...

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24 h. ago Taiwan restoration experts help families say goodbye to Hong Kong fire victims

Taiwanese mortuary reconstruction specialist Kuo Chang-chen wasted no time starting work to restore the bodies of Wang Fuk Court’s fire victims upon arriving in Hong Kong on Thursday. Kuo, 62, is leading a team of five other specialists from Taiwan who volunteered to assist in reconstructing the remains of the victims at the Kowloon Funeral Parlour. Their work aims to prepare the bodies for dignified funerals and offer closure to grieving families. “Every unexpected event deeply wounds the...

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41 h. ago Hong Kong fire: Indonesian helper ‘was always there’ for others up to the end

Indonesian domestic worker Desi Widiana had spent half her life in Hong Kong, caring for other people’s families while her own waited thousands of kilometres away. Now, her relatives in Sambi village in East Java are waiting again – this time for her final homecoming. Widiana, 40, was among nine Indonesian domestic helpers killed in a massive fire that tore through Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on November 26, leaving at least 160 people dead and thousands homeless. She had come...

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48 h. ago Despite lapses behind Tai Po fire, Hong Kong’s unity shows in a time of crisis

I grew up in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district and Wang Fuk Court was a stone’s throw away from my school. In the recent fire, 16 students and one staff member of my alma mater were affected. Fortunately, there were no casualties among them, but homes were destroyed and their loss was profoundly felt. The alumni circle was unanimously grief-stricken and many made every effort to offer whatever modest help we could. In the wake of the fire, messages of sympathy and concern for Hong Kong arrived one...

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59 h. ago Hong Kong fire: chairman, former head of Wang Fuk Court owners’ group arrested

Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has arrested the current and former chairmen of the Wang Fuk Court owners’ corporation as part of an investigation into renovation works linked to the city’s deadliest fire in decades, the Post has learned. The owners’ corporation has come under heavy scrutiny after the contractors it chose were found to have covered the estate buildings with substandard protective nets and foam boards, which are believed to be the cause of the unusually fast spread of last...

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3 d. ago Open court, detailed ruling in Jimmy Lai trial ‘prove Hong Kong rule of law strong’

An open court and a detailed ruling in former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s closely watched national security trial have demonstrated the strength of Hong Kong’s rule of law, legal experts have said. Lawyers, including the Hong Kong Bar Association, on Tuesday urged members of the public to respect the city’s judicial process and study the High Court’s judgment carefully before drawing conclusions after several Western countries criticised Lai’s guilty verdict, prompting a strong rebuke from...

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3 d. ago Hong Kong classical concert to raise money for family of firefighter lost to Tai Po fire

Some of Hong Kong’s biggest names in classical music are coming together to raise funds for the family of the firefighter who died in the Tai Po fire. The concert, titled “Salute to the Brave, Soothing the Soul” and co-organised by the violinist and conductor Leung Kin-fung, will be held on December 22 at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre in Tsim Sha Tsui. Firefighter Ho Wai-ho, 37, died in the line of duty in Wang Fuk Court. The worst blaze in Hong Kong in more than 70 years killed more than 160...

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3 d. ago ‘Don’t be misled by lies,’ Beijing tells foreign media in Hong Kong after Lai verdict

Beijing’s foreign ministry arm in Hong Kong has issued a rare open letter explaining the “facts and truths” behind former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s guilty verdict, urging international media outlets to uphold objectivity and present an accurate picture to the world. “To help you better understand the case, I wish to present the facts and truths surrounding it,” a spokesman for the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said on Monday. The city’s High Court found...

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3 d. ago ‘Don’t be misled by lies,’ Beijing tells foreign media in Hong Kong after Jimmy Lai ruling

Beijing’s foreign ministry arm in Hong Kong has issued a rare open letter explaining the “facts and truths” behind former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s guilty verdict, urging international media outlets to uphold objectivity and present an accurate picture to the world. “To help you better understand the case, I wish to present the facts and truths surrounding it,” a spokesman for the Commissioner’s Office of China’s Foreign Ministry in Hong Kong said on Monday. The city’s High Court found...

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4 d. ago Hong Kong court’s verdict in Jimmy Lai trial sheds light on law, experts say

The court’s verdict in former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s trial has shed light on the ways in which implicit acts and actions taken before the national security law came into effect may constitute criminal offences, legal experts have said. Lai, 78, was found guilty on all three charges he faced under the Beijing-imposed national security law on Monday, marking the first time a court had ruled on the offence of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. The landmark verdict was...

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4 d. ago Court finds Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai guilty after landmark national security trial

Hong Kong’s High Court found former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying guilty on all charges in his national security trial on Monday, ruling that he had used his tabloid newspaper and international connections to push for foreign intervention and sanctions against the local and central governments. In open proceedings watched by a packed gallery of spectators including representatives of foreign governments at West Kowloon Court, a panel of three judges convicted the businessman turned opposition...

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4 d. ago Jimmy Lai’s ‘rabid hatred’ of party led him down ‘thorny path’: Hong Kong court

Former Hong Kong media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying’s “rabid hatred” of the Communist Party of China has led him down a “thorny path”, according to the judges who found him guilty on three counts of national security offences. The 855-page full judgment released on Monday started with the “rags-to-riches” success story of Lai, but was overshadowed by criticism, particularly regarding the credibility of his evidence. Born in Guangzhou in 1947, Lai smuggled himself into Hong Kong at the age of 12,...

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4 d. ago Jimmy Lai convicted by Hong Kong court in national security trial

Jimmy Lai convicted by Hong Kong court in national security trial  NBC News

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4 d. ago Beijing office backs Hong Kong court in Jimmy Lai conviction

Beijing office backs Hong Kong court in Jimmy Lai conviction  China Daily

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4 d. ago Hong Kong fire victim sent frantic final video to husband in Indonesia

When Indonesian domestic helper Darwati sent her husband a video from Hong Kong, he had no idea it would be the last time he heard her voice. Eli Cahyono, 39, picked up his phone in the small hamlet of Bendasari in Indonesia’s Cilacap Regency on November 26 and saw a video message from his wife. Moments later, disbelief turned to panic. Darwati, 48, was trapped in a blaze tearing through one of the towers at Wang Fuk Court in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. Through the haze of thick black smoke,...

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4 d. ago Hong Kong court finds tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in landmark security trial

Hong Kong court finds tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in landmark security trial  Reuters

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4 d. ago Hong Kong court finds tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in national security trial

Hong Kong court finds tycoon Jimmy Lai guilty in national security trial  Reuters

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4 d. ago Hong Kong court finds media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai guilty of sedition, foreign collusion

Hong Kong court finds media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai guilty of sedition, foreign collusion  CBC

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4 d. ago Breaking News: A Hong Kong court found Jimmy Lai, a media mogul and notable critic of Beijing, guilty in a landmark national security trial.

Breaking News: A Hong Kong court found Jimmy Lai, a media mogul and notable critic of Beijing, guilty in a landmark national security trial.  facebook.com

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