This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. The first session of a public evidential hearing into a fire that engulfed a residential complex in Hong Kong and killed 168 people began on Thursday, nearly four months after the disaster. Ordered by the city’s leader and overseen by a judge-led independent committee, the hearings are meant to “clarify the relevant facts through oral evidence, written...