Despite a slight drizzle, about 100 people turned up at Universiti Malaya to hold a memorial for the victims of the Urumqi fire in China’s restive far western Xinjiang region.

Last Thursday, a fire in a high-rise building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, killed 10. It was claimed that residents could not escape because the building was partially under Covid-19 locked down, but the authorities have...