Independent committee probing Hong Kong fire to start hearings within first quarter

Hearings to be conducted by an independent committee investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades will begin within the first quarter, with Victor Dawes, former chairman of the city’s professional barristers’ group, appointed as lead counsel in the inquiry, the Post has learned. Six weeks after the conflagration claimed 161 lives in Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court, the health authorities said on Thursday that ten residents remained in hospital in stable condition, while a district council working...