Hong Kong
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In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed…

Hong Kong
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In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed…

Zhang Jun, Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) secretary general, delivers a speech during the opening ceremony of BFA Riyadh Conference 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 27, 2025. BFA Riyadh Conference 2025 was held on Thursday in Saudi Arabia,…

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SEOUL, South Korea — K-pop band aespa and other South Korean pop stars have announced a flurry of donations to support victims of an apartment fire in Hong Kong that killed at least 128 people in one of the city’s deadliest blazes.
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An aerial view of the burnt buildings after a deadly fire that started on November 26, 2025 at Wang Fuk Court, a residential estate in the Tai Po district of Hong Kong’s New Territories, on November 28, 2025.
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For almost 48 hours, Mr Lau had been calling his cousin. On Wednesday afternoon Lau was at his home nearby, when he saw smoke from Mei Lan’s building. Mei Lan, her husband, and their children live in the Wang Fuk Court high-rise apartment…