Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scaffolding at the Wang Fuk Court housing estate in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on November 27, 2025. - Bertha Wang/CNN The Hong Kong ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the ...

Every year, in the middle of summer, hundreds of Hong Kong construction workers and engineers walk up some 200 steps to Ching Lin Terrace in the seaside neighborhood of Kennedy Town. There, in one of ...

Bamboo scaffolding, a millennia-old tradition used in the construction work of buildings in Hong Kong, is now under scrutiny following a massive fire that led to the deaths of 55 people, left several ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city ...

HONG KONG — Kan Shui-ying was home alone on Wednesday, watching television at her Hong Kong apartment while her husband and son were at work. It was around 3 p.m., she said, when she “smelled a strong ...

(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong plans to phase out its long tradition of using bamboo scaffolding for construction projects, after the city’s deadliest residential fire in more than 60 years. Investigators ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — The Hong Kong residential towers engulfed by smoke and flames on Wednesday were surrounded by an ancient construction material familiar to anyone who’s spent time in the one of the ...