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Even as the devastating fire in Tai Po raged into the night, theories swirled around the possible causes of one of Hong Kong’s deadliest blazes in recent decades, with experts and residents suggesting that a combination of factors may have been involved. Authorities vowed to investigate the cause of the deadly No 5 fire, classified as posing the highest threat level, which claimed at least 36 lives, including a firefighter, and left 29 hospitalised. Another 279 others remain missing. Suspicion… Source link India Woman Abuses, Assaults Poll… Gold could retest record highs as… 9 smallcaps crash up to 61%…

Chinese investment is still being actively welcomed in Ireland, the head of a major business organisation said, even as the wider European Union adopts a more cautious attitude and Dublin walks a tightrope to maintain ties with both the US and China amid a wide-ranging rivalry between the world’s two largest economies. “We’re firmly open for business within the EU rules, that is an unambiguous position,” Mary Rose Burke, CEO of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, told the Post in an interview last… Source link India Woman Abuses, Assaults Poll… Gold could retest record highs as… 9 smallcaps crash…

Hong Kong labour authorities had warned the contractor working on Wang Fuk Court’s renovation about a fire hazard just a week before the housing estate in Tai Po was engulfed in the city’s worst blaze in decades, the Post has learned. In the aftermath of the devastating blaze that has so far claimed 65 lives, some residents said the fire alarms did not go off while an engineer warned that the flats destroyed in the inferno might not be habitable again. In a reply to the Post’s queries, the… Source link India Woman Abuses, Assaults Poll… Gold could retest…