A public hearing into Hong Kong's deadliest blaze in decades had errors in its official transcript, prompting an academic to urge for live-streaming future proceedings to strengthen transparency and public trust.

The official transcript of a public hearing into Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades has wrongly recorded several key details, the South China Morning Post has found, prompting an academic to urge that future proceedings be live-streamed to strengthen transparency and public trust. The errors included incorrect figures for the number of residents who escaped using lifts and the percentage of flats suffering severe damage, according to the SCMP’s review of the committee hearing investigating.....