These problems first took root as China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain, in 1997. Concerned that the ...

Firefighters extinguish blaze at building in Sheung Shui's Ma Liu Shui San Tsuen, and no injuries are reported A warehouse in ...

Images of seven high-rise residential buildings engulfed in flames in Hong Kong in late November shocked the world. The fire, ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong authorities pressed ahead on Monday with combing the remaining apartment towers destroyed by a massive fire at a housing estate that killed at least 146 people and displaced ...

Hong Kong authorities said they had arrested 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city's deadliest fire ...

Hong Kong braces for more losses as crews search for survivors inside a charred tower complex. WSJ’s Jonathan Cheng reports from the scene. Photo: Jonathan Cheng The fire in a Hong Kong high-rise last ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A firefighter suffered minor injuries in a blaze at a warehouse in Elm Park on Monday morning. The fire was called at 11:12 a.m. on the roof of a one-story building at 343 Walker ...

Days after a deadly blaze in Hong Kong killed at least 151 people, China has ordered a nationwide fire safety inspection of its more than one million residential and public use high-rise buildings.

The death toll in Hong Kong's apartment complex blaze rose to 146 on Sunday as investigators discovered more bodies in the burned-out buildings. A steady stream of people placed bouquets of flowers at ...

Beijing warned it would use a national security law to crack down on any "anti-China" protest after Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades killed 146 people and left dozens missing.

The complex was home to some 4,800 residents, some of whom had raised safety concerns about the renovations more than year before the fire ...

Hong Kong's deadliest fire in decades is raising questions about corruption and negligence in the renovations of the apartment complex where at least 128 people died.