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Inspections ordered at 8 more houses in Hong Kong’s One Stanley after rebar scandal

South China Morning Post16 October 2026, 10:42 UTCHong Kong

Hong Kong authorities have ordered the developer of the One Stanley luxury estate to inspect eight more houses – including one acquired by a Mongolian mining tycoon’s family – and the common area of a flat, in the wake of a scandal involving alleged substandard works at a building in the residential development. The details of the inspection were announced in a sales brochure updated on Friday by K&K Property, the developer of the neighbourhood in southern Hong Kong, after a detached house, No...

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John LeeGovernment leadersHong Kong15 October 2026, 21:48 UTC

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