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Disaster● LowJun 27 · Jun 27, 2026, 7:00 AM

How does this NGO help Hong Kong fire victims, needy people get a dignified farewell?

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from South China Morning Post

On a drizzly, windy morning in June, a family gathered before a tombstone at Wo Hop Shek Cemetery in northern Hong Kong to bid farewell to a loved one who died in the Wang Fuk Court fire. Beneath the muddy grave and scattered stones lies a man surnamed Hung, in his forties, among the 168 victims of the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Last November’s inferno also displaced nearly 5,000 residents. Unlike many victims who were cremated, Hung’s family insisted on a burial. “He passed in the blaze,...

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