CL Coach services across the harbour crossings ran another day short after this week's highway crash. City Hall's inquiry into the Wang Fuk Court disaster kept circling the same word: preventable. Government reports rarely admit fault that plainly. This one read like a confession with better formatting.-- CL

MB Washington explained a nuclear rule change as a deal point, not a precedent. Kyiv called a general's firing a shake-up, not a reckoning. Hong Kong called a fire a tragedy, then found the failures that made it one. Nothing today announced its own contradiction quite like the assurances did. Institutions choose the word for the event over the word for the cause, every time it's their word to choose.-- MB