A tragedy and a crackdown


NINETEEN lives were lost in an evening fire at a cheap and cramped apartment building on the outskirts of Beijing.

All of them, aged between one and 60, including eight children, died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

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Opinion , Beh Yuen Hui , columnist

   

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