How key? Just the top leaders or across the board?
Top leaders and politicians.
But it doesn’t mean that others won’t have issues if they return or visit. These are just the ones they publicly announced and issued bounties on… others may still be Wanted or be Persons of Interest.
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Some are not particularly well known, or could be classified as a top leader. For example, Chloe Cheung.
They used a photo of her aged 11 in the ‘wanted’ poster.
I was there recently. More mainland people and restaurants every time I go, pretty rapid rate of increase.
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The ones I know have either left or given in. The fear there is legitimate. HK is left with a lot of Chiense supporters and people that just frankly dont give a fuck and want to eat, live, sleep with any personal sacrifice for their community/society/greater good. Sad ending to what was a truly heroic effort. Meanwhile, the international community also seems to not give 2 shits either.
I know a number of people that have come to Taiwan to get citizenship here in this country, and go back to live their lives. Taiwan is their plan b, cause it’s easy and free. It’s been harder these years for Chinese people, but they allow it still. Which seems bonkers to me. I think a lot of “give up” culture is prevailing. Probably to be replaced by ignorant culture in the future 
Nothing is looking good in terms of China expansion, despite all the information being available.
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I go there regularly for work. It’s really “well integrating” into the mainland. The biggest difference are the ads on the MTR. Now mostly in Chinese (at least still traditional, but more simplified is being shown). In the “old days” ads were basically in English only, maybe with some Chinese at the bottom. And bloody TVB pearl is basically straight propaganda now
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Yet more proof that Hong Kong is in decline. Not the substance of the report, but the confusing language used by Hong Kong’s largest English language newspaper.
Another big fire in HK?
God damn!
That looks awful.
Guy
The language of Hong Kong is/was Cantonese.
China wow.
Hong Kong is gone.
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Total death trap.
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crazy…
Tong Pingmoon, a resident of Wang Fuk Court, said he first smelled smoke around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, and soon after, a firefighter banged on the door of his 10th floor apartment to tell him a nearby building was on fire. Tong, 74, and his wife refused to evacuate then, but the smoke soon got worse.
The couple called for help and hid in the bathroom, using wet towels to cover their faces and stuff in the gap under the door. They were rescued around 6 p.m. and were staying at a school being used as a temporary shelter.
“We were so lucky. It was pitch dark,” Tong said. We wouldn’t have made it if we had to head out by ourselves.”
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Considering the relative low number of dead people (36 out of 4000 residents or so?), it seems most of the residents were not trapped, though.
I remember there was a deadly fire maybe two decades ago in Hong Kong where lot of people were trapped after the fire spread rapidly through the building, thanks to people leaving the doors to the staircases open. Whenever I see that in a Taipei building I always think of that Hong Kong fire. Drives me crazy, when people, out of convenience, ignore this potential risk, despite being told on signs everywhere to shut those effing doors. It’s not just the fire itself, but also the smoke that is deadly, leading to suffocation and disorientation. Always shut those doors!
Found it:
Main problem was the elevator shaft, but also:
Some fire safety procedures were violated, such as the firedoors being left open allowing thick smoke to fill the hallways of the top floors, especially the 15th floor unit.
What the F?
The welding activity routinely triggered alarms from the building’s smoke detectors, so much so that staff at the China Arts & Crafts store that occupied the bottom three floors had wrapped plastic around the fire alarms to muffle the sound.
Bamboo scaffolding…
The fire consumed the bamboo scaffolding and the open elevator shaft provided a source of fresh air, creating a chimney effect that eventually rose to the 13th floor, starting another fire there.
But it will take two extra seconds
That being said, I don’t know what those buildings were like but I have trouble envisioning that happening in Taiwan.
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I did live in one of those residential towers in Hong Kong for about a year in the late 90s. The staircase was semi-open, on the outside of the building. This felt much safer than the staircases in the center of buildings, which I think are more common here in Taiwan.
In my building across from McDonalds in Guting, there was a big central well, and the electronics store on first floor covered the bottom in B1 with tarps and stored all their TVs and shit there. One day it went up, building got toasted pretty good. Luckily our place was on the outer ring facing the street, all the units on the inner ring were forked. We went to a meeting after, the first thing the fire department guy there said was “when I saw the flames shooting out of the top of the building, I knew it was bad.” Building survived though. No one hurt.
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Aren’t there hundreds missing that they can’t get to, or is that outdated info? Looks pretty deathy to me.
OK, I haven’t followed this closely. Thought “a fire that big, and only 30 dead” was not as bad as you would expect. Well, maybe it is as bad as you would expect, after all. 
At least 44 people have been killed in a major fire engulfing public housing apartments in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district - more than 270 people are still not accounted for
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