A property management firm in Hong Kong admitted to failing in its contractual obligations to identify and follow up on fire hazards, with none of its top management testifying at a hearing into the November 26 blaze that claimed 168 lives.

An employee of the property management firm at Hong Kong’s inferno-ravaged Wang Fuk Court housing estate has admitted the company failed in its contractual obligations to identify and follow up on fire hazards, while none of its top management testified at an evidential hearing into the disaster. The eighth day of the hearing by the independent committee investigating the November 26 blaze that claimed 168 lives centred on Cheng Tsz-ying, a property officer at ISS EastPoint, the property...