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Japan's Fair Trade Commission to Order 1.6 Billion Yen in Fines for Bid-Rigging in Condo Renovations
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Japan's Fair Trade Commission to Order 1.6 Billion Yen in Fines for Bid-Rigging in Condo Renovations

Japan's Fair Trade Commission plans to order over 30 construction companies, including Haseko Reform and Daikyo Anabuki Construction, to pay approximately 1.6 billion yen in fines for violating the Antimonopoly Act through bid-rigging on large-scale condominium renovation projects. Two design consulting firms will also be subject to orders to prevent recurrence.

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JR Hokkaido President Apologizes for Bid-Rigging Allegations in Hokkaido Shinkansen Extension Project
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Business·20.05.2026Résumé IA

JR Hokkaido President Apologizes for Bid-Rigging Allegations in Hokkaido Shinkansen Extension Project

JR Hokkaido President Yasuyuki Watari apologized for bid-rigging allegations in the Hokkaido Shinkansen extension project. The Fair Trade Commission is investigating 9 companies, including JR Hokkaido's subsidiary, for suspected violations of the Anti-Monopoly Act. Local governments expressed concern over project impact and cost justification.

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Bar Association proposes ‘double-track’ approach to criminalising bid-rigging
ACTU
10.05.2026

Bar Association proposes ‘double-track’ approach to criminalising bid-rigging

The Hong Kong Bar Association has proposed criminalising bid-rigging by introducing a “double-track” approach to the Competition Ordinance, describing it as a quick fix to increase deterrence and encourage more whistle-blowers to expose industry malpractice following the city’s deadliest fire in decades. Under the current civil regime established in 2015, the ordinance only punishes individuals involved in serious anticompetitive acts, such as bid-rigging, with fines. But the new proposal calls...

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Heroism and grief: 6 residents’ stories from Wang Fuk Court fire hearings
ACTU
09.05.2026

Heroism and grief: 6 residents’ stories from Wang Fuk Court fire hearings

Stories filled with tragic bravery, outrage at heedless officials and horror as loved ones perished were among those shared by 24 residents of the fire-ravaged Wang Fuk Court estate, as they testified at a public hearing investigating Hong Kong’s deadliest blaze in decades. Over multiple sessions that began on March 19, some told the presiding committee how their repeated efforts to raise bid-rigging and safety concerns about the estate’s exterior renovation fell on deaf ears, well before the...

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Tai Po fire: tendering system can’t stop firms manipulating market, inquiry hears
ACTU
30.04.2026

Tai Po fire: tendering system can’t stop firms manipulating market, inquiry hears

An official tendering system designed to curb anti-competitive conduct is powerless to combat engineering firms colluding to manipulate Hong Kong’s lucrative building maintenance market, a public inquiry into the city’s deadliest fire in decades has heard. Testifying on the 21st day of an independent committee’s hearing, three Urban Renewal Authority (URA) officials said on Thursday that the statutory body had neither the capacity nor the resources to combat bid-rigging linked to estates’...

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Tai Po fire probe: URA’s Smart Tender system creates ‘false sense of security’ - as it happened
ACTU
30.04.2026

Tai Po fire probe: URA’s Smart Tender system creates ‘false sense of security’ - as it happened

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism by subscribing. An independent committee investigating the deadly blaze at Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court residential estate held its 21st day of evidential hearings on Thursday. Three witnesses from the Urban Renewal Authority gave evidence. URA case manager Matthew Chan Yat-ho, said the authority was aware of the practice of bid-rigging in the building maintenance sector, but...

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