Joanna Bryson, blathering
Salman MehdiTen migrant workers died in Hong Kong's deadly fire. Survivors must return to work fast with no time to grieve. Families face delays in getting bodies home. Groups call for more aid and rule changes. #HongKongFire #MigrantWorkers #DomesticHelpers globalvoices.org/2025/12/19/ten-migrant-domestic-workers-died-in-hong-kongs-inferno-the-survivors-struggle-to-grieve/
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾In Hong Kong, corruption is rife in the real estate and construction industries. Long controlled by moguls, monopolies this has existed way back in the British rule. From my light investigation, while such corruption does happen in mainland China, it is not as bad as in Hong Kong. Many mainlanders expressed shock at a lot of the things revvealed here - elderly residents being charged six figures for repairs, cloaking the entire building in darkness for two years, blatant dismissal of the residents' fire safety concerns, which was raised from the very beginning.
On the mainland, safety standards are higher, though patchy. (Meaning less developed or rural areas do "get away" with shoddy standards.)
I'm not sure if this will bring about any change, however. The "one country two systems" is strong in Hong Kong and the Chinese govt will only step in when it's very crucial. Most probably, they'll wait to see how the current govt handles it.
What galls me is that despite repetitive fires in the past, nothing was done. (Wang Fuk towers wasn't the first, but it was the first with heavy casualties.)
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1017937
恐龍化石 Dino FossilFor those who may concern
You can find an actively maintained GitHub fork repo of the fire documentary on
Hesitated to post this, but this has bugged me the whole day. I don't like dumping sad stuff on my readers.
At first, I was angry seeing all the spin the BBCs, Sky News and ABCs were doing around the HK fire. At a time when so many had died so horrifically, and where many mainland Chinese were grieving along with them (if only you could've read their posts crying over the fate of these victims), these "journalists" were using this tragedy to spin yet another anti-China narrative. Again, they somehow made it ABOUT THEM.
At a time when you need to show compassion, you somehow make it about yet another conspiracy against the Chinese government. Don't you have anything else to do? Don't you have a heart?
Anyway, I'm not sure why I'm so sad over the events in Hong Kong and how the western media covered it (eventhough I expected it). Perhaps it's because most of us in Malaysia also live in high rises, perhaps it's because I have direct access to HK and Chinese social media, able to read/see their grief.
Today, I read about a man who survived the fire, how he waited over 6 hours for rescue in an apartment filled with toxic smoke. About a woman wailing outside, because she had happened to step out to buy some groceries, only to return to see her home burning and that her husband and daughter are in that building. Today, I saw a HK official breaking down as she told the crowd, in Cantonese (which I can understand thanks to years watching TVB) that some victims cannot be found as they've been reduced to ashes. I saw many mainlanders asking about the fate of the survivors - will they have a home? Is the govt helping? How can *we* help?
I'm convinced these "journalists", who prob could not read/see all this due to the language barrier did not think any of these people are living humans. They are "other", just non-humans.
How can these media outlets SPIN at a time like this? Couldn't you just quit your racism for one tiny second and show some humanity?
SIGH.
Just feeling sad for the state of humanity, I guess. Sorry if I'm a downer. This has bugged me the whole day, especially seeing all those stories on social media.
A very comprehensive multimedia article about the Hong Kong fires; how the fire started, the timeline of events and more.
#HongKong #HongKongFire #HongKongApartmentComplexFireNov2025
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Daily Times - Latest Pakistan News, World, Business, Sports, LifestyleHong Kong Fire: Probe Launched After Deadly Blaze
A walk around Wang Fuk Court, two years ago, before the fire.
大埔 宏福苑 4K | Tai Po - Wang Fuk Court | DJI Pocket 2 | 2023.05.25
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