Fires

The fire was brought under control after about 12 hours

The refinery supplies more than 50 per cent of Victoria’s fuel and 10 per cent of Australia’s

They include middlemen, project consultants and contractors

[MANADO, Indonesia] A fire at a retirement home in the city of Manado on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has killed 16 people, a local police official said on Monday (Dec 29).

[HONG KONG] Hong Kong will seek to wrap up an independent investigation into a fire that killed at least 160 people in the Asia financial centre within nine months, the city’s leader said on Friday (D...

The fire erupted on the first floor at around midday

[HONG KONG] Turnout is expected to be low for Hong Kong’s “patriots only” legislative election on Sunday (Dec 7), with subdued political campaigning as the population reels from the city’s deadliest b...

While firefighters contained the blaze on Friday, families had the grim task of looking at photographs of the dead taken by rescue workers.

The Business Times investigates the numbers behind the operation and the financial scale of the tragedy.