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JingDong Industrials, a unit of Chinese online retailer JD.com, is aiming to raise up to HK$3.27 billion ($420.08 million) in its Hong Kong initial public offering, according to a prospectus lodged on Wednesday.
The inferno that tore through a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong has killed at least 146 people, authorities said Sunday, with around 40 still missing. Officers had found a further 18 bodies in the Wang Fuk Court tower complex, officials said, as the fallout continues following the deadliest blaze in the Chinese territory in seven decades.
Hundreds of people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery to pay their respects to those who died and the thousands left homeless by the fire in Hong Kong.
Yip Ka-kui watched in agony as fire engulfed his Hong Kong apartment building, speaking with his wife of 40 years who was trapped inside.
As the territory mourns over the high-rise apartment fire that killed at least 156 people, frustration is mounting over building safety lapses, suspected construction corruption and lax government oversight.
It was a clear autumn afternoon with blue skies and a cool breeze as Wong set off to pick up his granddaughter from school.
Preliminary investigations showed the fire started Wednesday afternoon on a lower-level scaffolding net of one of the buildings, and then spread rapidly inside as the foam panels caught fire and blew out windows.
Authorities say construction materials at site of disaster that killed 151 did not comply with anti-flammability standards
LONDON -- The death toll following a massive fire that ripped through several Hong Kong high-rises has climbed to 146 people, the Hong Kong police on Sunday. Speaking at a news conference, the police said they are not ruling out the possibility that the number of dead from the fire would increase.
Mourners gathered to remember those who were killed during a massive fire that spread across multiple apartment buildings in Hong Kong. CBS News' Anna Coren reports.