- The Buildings Department (BD) has been inspecting other buildings with shed nets that are undergoing major external wall repairs since the day before yesterday to check the flame retardant perfo…
- Although the social atmosphere has been affected by the fire in Hongfu Court in Tai Po recently, with the opportunity of the US Federal Reserve to cut interest rates again this month, the second…
- The death toll from the deadly blaze at Tai Po's Wang Fuk Court has risen to 151 as officers discovered more bodies in their search, with some found burned beyond recognition. The force began it…
- A former consultant to the owners' corporation of Wang Fuk Court has urged law enforcement officers to launch a probe into the current committee of the Tai Po residential estate, where the city'…
- Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in India on Thursday on a two-day state visit aimed at bolstering bilateral economic and military ties, as New Delhi faces heavy US pressure to stop buyi…
- A married primary school guidance officer was involved in multiple sexual intercourse with a girl aged about 13 at her residence and hotel over the course of one year, and took pornographic imag…
- The city is now mourning the 128 people known to have died.
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- On the afternoon of November 28, the organizers of the well-known Japanese singer Ayumi Hamasaki's Shanghai concert issued an announcement on the cancellation of the Shanghai station of the "Ayu…
- Recently, a major diplomatic decision of the Communist Party of China has once again set off an anti-Japanese wave. The background of this decision is that on November 7, Japanese Prime Minister…
- Female Western doctor Choi Shuk-mei was charged with "dishonestly accessing a computer with the intention of deception" on the grounds of "vaccine phobia" in 2022, and she and her husband were a…
- If China's the loser, HK's the winnerTranslated by Chen-t'ang 鎮棠, written by Atsuna, edited by Yeung So-san Original: http://www.passiontimes.hk/article/04-19-2015/22431 (Bloomberg) "Kong girls"…
- Police on Tuesday laid a holding charge of murder against a 51-year-old man on suspicion of stabbing his wife to death and setting fire to their Tuen Mun flat. Officers were called to a unit in …
- The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office issued a press release yesterday stating that Xia Baolong, director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, immediately set up a working group of the Ho…
- The "Tai Po Wang Fuk Court Fire Concern Group" founded by CUHK student Kwan King-fung launched a joint petition on the fire on the 5th (28th) this week, listing four major demands. He was arrest…
- Yesterday, victims continued to apply for assistance at shelter centers, and it was reported that some people were suspected of impersonating the victims to receive subsidies, and some fraudster…
- The National Bureau of Statistics announced that the purchasing managers' index (PMI) of the mainland's manufacturing industry rose 0.2 month-on-month to 49.2 in November, but fell short of the …
- The five trustees of the fund, including Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop Emeritus of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, barrister Margaret Ng, singer Denise Ho, former associate professor of Lingnan…
- Meituan (03690) announced that for the third quarter ended September, it recorded a net loss of 186.32 billion yuan (the same below), compared with a profit of 128.65 billion yuan in the same pe…
- Chief Executive John Lee on Saturday led top government officials, Executive Council members and civil servants in three minutes of silence to mourn the victims of this week's fire at Wang Fuk C…
- China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that at the invitation of President Xi Jinping, French President Emmanuel Macron will pay a three-day state visit to China from Wednesday …
- The Observatory said that the dry northeast monsoon was bringing generally sunny weather to Guangdong. In addition, a band of clouds is covering the northern part of the South China Sea. The Red…
- In response to the Grade 5 fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, the Chief Secretary for Administration, Chan Kwok-ki, who is also the head of the Investigation and Regulation Working Group, mention…
- The new AI large model trained by the chip has also surpassed the leader OpenAI's ChatGPT to become the first in the industry, supporting the parent company Alphabet (US: GOOGL) The stock price …
- U.S. President Trump immediately tightened immigration policy again, ordering a re-examination of asylum applications approved by the former Biden administration, as well as green card holders f…
- The authorities continued to investigate the Grade 5 fire at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, and Fire Commissioner Yeung Yan-kin said on the 28th of last month that the fire department had checked the…
- A level 5 fire broke out in Wang Fuk Court, Tai Po the day before yesterday (26th). The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said on Facebook today that as of this morning, a total o…
- JD Industry (7618), an industrial supply chain technology and service provider spun off from JD.com Group (9618), will offer shares from yesterday to next week 1 (8th), adopting a mechanism B is…
- The two major local Chinese fast food giants, Café de Coral (0341) and Da Happy Wood (0052), announced their interim results on the same day yesterday. Café de Coral's profit plummeted by nearly…
- The government has temporarily lifted the sealing of Wang Chi Court, which has not been affected by the fire, for two consecutive days since yesterday, and arranged for residents to return to th…
- Pope Leo XIV reiterated the Vatican's position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, stressing that the only solution must include the establishment of a Palestinian state. The Pope held his firs…
- Democratic Party urban planner Wu Yonghui, ADPL Liao Chengli and Li Tingfeng were originally scheduled to hold a "press conference on Hong Kong's high-rise building maintenance policy" this afte…
- A large number of citizens spontaneously donated materials and set up material stations on the Kwong Fuk Village platform for the victims to use. The Government said yesterday that due to the ab…
- The Community Chest of Hong Kong announced today (28th) that the Community Chest of Hong Kong (28th) cancelled the Community Chest's HK$1 million event on Hong Kong Island and Kowloon District s…
- The URA has set up the "Building Rehabilitation Company Registration Scheme", which allows owners to learn about contractors or consultants through the website. According to the URA's website a …
- A 50-year-old senior surveyor of the Planning Department pleaded guilty to the offence of unlawful filming and observing intimate parts of a female passer-by in Langham Place in Mong Kok in Octo…
- A male police officer of the National Security Division was arrested on suspicion of secretly filming a woman at a Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station during an off-duty period in January this year, and w…
- On 26th November 2025, around 2:50pm, a fire broke out in one of the 31-story buildings in Wang Fuk Court, a 42-year-old Home Ownership Scheme housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong. The fire quick…
- When he was in charge of the works contract, a senior engineer of the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department concealed that he had a personal relationship with the director of a subcontra…
- In 2023, McDonald's then engineering consultant was charged with one count of accepting an advantage from an agent and his wife for a Rolex watch worth more than $80,000 from a McDonald's genera…
- A bowl of snail powder is one of the best comforts for those who have been locked down and quarantined during the new crown epidemic in the mainland, thus pushing the prefabricated industry of s…
- Asian stocks on Monday made a steady start to the final month of 2025 as US rate-cut optimism lifted risk sentiment ahead of economic data while the Japanese yen firmed, with investors weighing …
- A magnitude 5 fire broke out in Hung Fuk Court, Tai Po, killing 159 people and leaving nearly 2,000 families homeless. The party media "Ta Kung Pao" published a commentary article on its Faceboo…
- A 51-year-old man diagnosed with schizophrenia was suspected of being emotionally abnormal after an argument with his wife, slashed his wife with a 28 cm long cleaver, and then lit paper and mis…
- The Grade 5 fire at Wang Fuk Court, Tai Po has raised concerns about the fire performance of materials used during the construction of the building. All 9 buildings in Fotan Suihe Court, which i…
- A Grade 5 fire broke out at Wang Fuk Court in Tai Po, and the community's demand for psychological support continued to rise. The Hong Kong Red Cross announced today (30 February) that it will p…
- Privacy Commissioner Ada Chung on Monday said the public should be on guard against phishing text messages and websites that seek to scam donors who want to help survivors of the Tai Po blaze. I…
- South Korea's "12.3 martial law" celebrated its first anniversary on Wednesday (3rd), and the social rift triggered by the incident resurfaced, with camps supporting and opposing then-President …
- Finnish parliamentarian Päiviräsänen has just gone through her third trial for a 2019 tweet, after she had been acquitted twice before. In the tweet, she quoted a verse from the Bible to express…
- UBTECH (9880) just announced that it had raised 3 billion yuan in a share allotment, and recently announced that it had successfully won the bid for the Jiujiang Humanoid Robot Data Collection a…
- The government on Wednesday announced that Wang Fuk Court residents have had their taxes for the previous financial year waived, as part of efforts by the administration to provide as much suppo…
- Nov 29, 2025
