An independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades has found “key clues” pointing to systemic loopholes that it called “unacceptable”. At the committee’s first meeting, which lasted 1½ hours on Thursday, senior counsel Victor Dawes said the body had received a large amount of information from relevant parties. The leading barrister added that this had given the committee a “considerable understanding” of the fire at Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court. “The evidence appears to show...