Residents struggling to make ends meet in one of the world's most expensive cities resort to sleeping in tiny properties that are so crammed that they have been dubbed 'coffin homes'. More than ...
HONG KONG • Li Suet-wen’s dream home would have a bedroom and living room where her two children could play and study. The reality is a one-room “shoebox” cubicle, one of five partitioned out of a ...
Hong Kong's housing crisis has led to the prevalence of "coffin homes," tiny, sub-divided living spaces often no larger than ...
Wilson Tong, CEO of LifeArt Asia, left, talks to a reporter who tries out a catholic-designed paper coffin at Tong's factory in Hong Kong, Friday, March 18, 2022. Hong Kong is running short of coffins ...
Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, said during a Wednesday press conference that the region is suffering shortages of supplies such as coffins due to China's ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is running short of coffins during its deadliest outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, which has cost about 6,000 lives so far this year. Cremation is a common burial ...
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest coronavirus outbreak has cost about 6,000 lives this year – and the city is now running out of coffins. Authorities have scrambled to order more, with the ...