{"id":75369,"date":"2025-11-28T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/anger-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fires-deaths"},"modified":"2025-11-28T01:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T16:17:16","slug":"anger-swelling-in-hong-kong-over-high-rise-fires-that-killed-65-people-amy-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75369","title":{"rendered":"Anger swelling in Hong Kong over deadliest fire in more than 70 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some think leader John Lee\u2019s focus on blaming bamboo scaffolding deflects from actual cause<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-tai-po-police-blame-construction-company\">inferno that engulfed Wang Fuk Court<\/a> residential compound in Hong Kong is still burning, but questions are already being asked about what the deadliest fire in more than 70 years means for Beijing\u2019s grip on power in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll from the blaze, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2025\/nov\/27\/hong-kong-fire-tai-po-what-we-know-so-far\">tore apart<\/a> seven of the eight high-rise apartment buildings in Wang Fuk Court, a residential compound home to 4,800 people, is still rising. Hundreds of people are still missing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/anger-hong-kong-apartment-complex-fires-deaths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some think leader John Lee\u2019s focus on blaming bamboo scaffolding deflects from actual causeThe inferno that engulfed Wang Fuk Court residential compound in Hong Kong is still burning, but questions are already being asked about what the deadliest fire &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,3452,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-hong-kong-apartment-fires","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75375,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75369\/revisions\/75375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}