HONG KONG (SCMP): Ambiguous rules, lax supervision and uncoordinated policies involving at least four departments are among some deep-rooted problems contributing to the inferno that killed 160 residents in Hong Kong, analysts have said, as the Post reviewed what went wrong.
Some industry insiders also questioned whether housing authorities, who oversee a lesser-known independent checking unit, should have played a bigger role in supervising the renovation of Wang Fuk Court, a subsidised housing estate in Tai Po, where the city’s worst blaze in seven decades struck.
