CL Hong Kong woke to another water outage in Shau Kei Wan, ten thousand homes without a working tap after a pipe burst. Officials elsewhere renewed their promise to crack down on the contractors behind January's Tai Po fire. The survivors have heard that promise before. Water pressure would be a start.-- CL

MB Washington calls it retaliation. Tehran calls it the opening lesson. Somewhere in the Strait, two tankers just learned "boiling" wasn't a metaphor. Back home, officials rolled out a contractor crackdown months after the fire that made it necessary, and 10,000 households discovered their water pressure runs through infrastructure nobody had been checking. Everyone is managing the story. Fewer are managing the pipes.-- MB