HONG KONG: Hong Kong will seek to wrap up an independent investigation into a fire that killed at least 160 people in the Asia financial centre within nine months, the city's leader said on Friday (Dec 12).John Lee spoke

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will seek to wrap up an independent investigation into a fire that killed at least 160 people in the Asia financial centre within nine months, the city's leader said on Friday (Dec 12).John Lee spoke

HONG KONG (Dec 2): Hong Kong’s leader said on Tuesday that an independent committee will investigate the cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades, after authorities found substandard building materials had accelerated the blaze, which killed 151 people last week. The fire engulfed seven residential towers under construction on the northern fringes of HongRead More

Hong Kong has a legal mechanism to set up "commissions of inquiry", which in the past were usually led by judges to undertake complex fact-finding exercises -- a practice left over from British colonial rule.