61 m. ago Hong Kong fire live: Huge blaze rips through Tai Po apartment building killing four

Live feed from scene shows firefighters dousing fierce flames at Tai Po high-rise complex

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84 m. ago Four dead as fire rages through Hong Kong apartment blocks, trapping people inside, after fire spread on bamboo scaffolding

Four people have been killed by a raging fire at a high-rise Hong Kong housing complex on Wednesday that left others trapped inside.

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87 m. ago Huge fire rips through Hong Kong apartment building killing four – latest

Live feed from scene shows firefighters dousing fierce flames at Tai Po high-rise complex

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1 hour ago Hong Kong fire: Moment horror inferno STARTS as dozens feared dead in multi

Emergency services in Hong Kong have responded to a towering inferno in Wang Fuk Court, in the territory's northern Tai Po district, which has killed four people

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2 h. ago Four dead as fire rages through Hong Kong apartment blocks after fire spread on bamboo scaffolding

Four people have been killed by a raging fire at a high-rise Hong Kong housing complex on Wednesday that left others trapped inside, authorities said.

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3 h. ago Hong Kong fire horror as huge blaze rips through buildings trapping desperate people

Firefighters are scrambling to put out a fire that's spreading quickly to other residential buildings at Hung Cheong Court in Hung Fuk Estate, the Tai Po district in Hong Kong

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3 h. ago Hong Kong fire sees multiple dead as people 'trapped' after 'explosions heard'

Firefighters swarmed a major blaze at Hung Fuk Estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, China, today after flames quickly spread leading to tragedy as at least four people lost their lives

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22 h. ago Alibaba's cloud business revenue soars 34% driven by AI boom

China's Alibaba Group is reporting a 34% jump in revenue from its cloud business, driven by the AI boom

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35 h. ago Horror moment Palestine Action activist allegedly attacks cop with SLEDGEHAMMER as female officer felt ‘spine shatter’

THIS is the terrifying moment a Palestine Action protestor allegedly attacks a police officer with a sledgehammer. Police bodycam footage shows the harrowing moment the activist swings the heavy hammer at officers during a break-in at an Israeli defence firm's UK site. A court was told six members of the proscribed organisation wearing red boiler...

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44 h. ago Horror moment woman, 26, is set alight on train as thug yells 'burn alive b****'

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT Bethany MaGee was doused in petrol and set ablaze on the train after she was followed by the man in the seemingly unprovoked attack, leaving her with horrific injuries

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5 d. ago Hong Kong charges four over online posts urging boycott of ‘patriots

Three men and a woman accused of provoking hatred against city’s government and inciting people to not vote in next month’s legislative council election

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5 d. ago Call The Midwife Christmas special under threat as wild weather hits filming

Stars of Call The Midwife struggled to cope while filming the show's Christmas special in Hong Kong. They had to wear lots of layers in balmy temperatures

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5 d. ago Call The Midwife Christmas special hit by chaotic scenes as wild weather arrives

Stars of Call The Midwife struggled to cope while filming the show's Christmas special in Hong Kong. They had to wear lots of layers in balmy temperatures

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6 d. ago ‘The English person with a Chinese stomach’: how Fuchsia Dunlop became a Sichuan food hero

The author has been explaining Sichuan cuisine to westerners for decades. But ‘Fu Xia’, as she’s known, has had a profound effect on food lovers in China, tooEvery autumn in the mid-00s, when I lived in China, my friend Scarlett Li would invite me to Shanghai to eat hairy crab. Named for the spiky fur on their legs and claws, the crabs are said to have the best flavour during the ninth month of the lunar calendar. They’re steamed and served whole, with a dip of rice vinegar spiked with ginger. The most prized specimens come from Yangcheng Lake near Suzhou, which is not far from Scarlett’s home town of Wuxi. She had moved to Hong Kong as a child, attended high school and college in Australia, and returned to China to pursue a career as an entrepreneur. Despite her years abroad, she remained Chinese through and through – and eating hairy crab with her, I became Chinese, too.Beginning in the Tang dynasty in the seventh century, crabs were harvested from the lakes and estuaries of the Y...

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8 d. ago Engine accelerated after landing, a probe into deadly Hong Kong plane crash finds

An investigation into a deadly plane crash in Hong Kong last month found an engine of the aircraft accelerated after touching down

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8 d. ago Horror moment woman plunges 20ft from faulty rollercoaster at 60mph in deadly crash

Karin Elmegard was one of three people thrown from the 60mph Jetline rollercoaster at Gröna Lund theme park in Stockholm when the ride derailed, leaving one dead

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8 d. ago 'Scariest' airport in the world forced to close down and is now something very different

Hong Kong's Kai Kak airport's runway was so terrifying to land that pilots needed special training to tackle a landing

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8 d. ago 'World's scariest airport' forced pilots to make terrifying landings

Kai Tak in Hong Kong was once the world's most terrifying place to land a plane, with a concrete runway wedged between skyscrapers, mountains and Victoria Harbour

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8 d. ago Disturbing moment woman plunges 20ft from faulty rollercoaster

A horror clip captured the moment Karin Elmegard was sent hurtling 20ft from a 'faulty' rollercoaster that left one rider dead and several others injured at a theme park .

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1 week ago Horror moment shark attacks foilboarder and 'explodes' him into air

Andy McDonald, 61, survived a brush with a shark while foilboarding off Prevelly Beach in Western Australia, where the beast tore a chunk off his foil-powered craft out at sea

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