Substandard work and evasion of oversight helped fuel deadly Hong Kong fire, investigators told

An independent committee investigating the cause of Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades on Friday heard arguments on how malpractices that had evaded regulatory oversight turned a small fire into a tragedy


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