HONG KONG — Hong Kong residents, construction professionals and former senior officials are pushing back against the idea that bamboo scaffolding was a main reason flames spread so quickly in the city ...
Hong Kong's deadliest fire in three decades has highlighted its risky use of flammable bamboo scaffolding and mesh for building work in a tradition dating back centuries to mainland China. Authorities ...
BANGKOK(AP) — While the exact cause of the deadly inferno that swept across a Hong Kong apartment complex was unknown, questions have been raised about the role of the bamboo scaffolding that ...
WAS NOT LIFE THREATENING AND HE IS STABLE. NO WORD YET ON POSSIBLE MOTIVES OR SUSPECTS. IT’S BEEN A WINDY DAY ACROSS CENTRAL FLORIDA AND IN DAYTONA BEACH, A HIGH WIND GUST CAUSED BANNERS TO PULL DOWN ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bamboo scaffolding used in the 2007 construction of Hong Kong's Convention and Exhibition Center, where major global events like ...
A work crew erected scaffolding Tuesday night outside the Midtown building where a prominent architect was killed by a piece of falling facade. About a dozen workers were in the process of piecing ...