Hong Kong proposes smoking ban on all building sites after deadly fire

HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s government introduced legislative amendments on Tuesday to ban smoking on all construction sites, after a massive fire at a housing complex killed 168 people last year. The city’s deadliest blaze in decades ripped through seven of the eight apartment blocks at the Wang Fuk Court complex in northern Hong Kong in November. The estate was undergoing repair works at the time, and a panel investigating the inferno heard in March that a likely cause was construction workers smoking on the scaffolding. READ: Hong Kong fire death toll hits 159 after towers searched Investigators were also […]... Keep on reading: Hong Kong proposes smoking ban on all building sites after deadly fire

Original source: Philippine Daily Inquirer