August 2nd, 2000: A fire broke out inside a unit on the 13th floor of the Immigration Tower of Hong Kong, injuring 47, including 23 staff members of the Immigration Department.
January 5th, 2000: Fire erupted on the roof of a 32-storey office tower in Philadelphia in the United States, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of workers. No one was injured in the blaze.
December 8th, 1997: At least 14 people died in a fire that engulfed the top floors of a new tower block building in Indonesia's central bank complex in Jakarta.
April 7th, 1997: Nine died in a fire at a 20storey block in Kowloon's Mei Foo district, Hong Kong.
February 23rd, 1997: A fire at Bangkok's President Tower, a 36-floor complex on Ploenchit Road that includes a hotel, shopping plaza and office building, killed three. The seventh to 10th floors were destroyed.
November 21st, 1996: Fire in Hong Kong's Nathan Road tourist shopping street turned into an inferno, killing 40 people and injuring 81. It was the worst blaze in a building on record in the British colony.
January 17th, 1996: London's NatWest Tower, the tallest office block in the city's financial centre, caught fire but no one was injured, police and firefighters said. Dark smoke billowed from the 183-metre (600ft), 42-storey building.
November 23rd, 1995: A blaze in the basement of New York's Empire State Building filled the skyscraper with smoke. Hundreds were evacuated as more than 40 fire engines dealt with the fire.