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 ...
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 ...
This three-meter square bunk isn't just Simon Wong's bed. It's his home. All his belongings crammed inside this one tiny space. These notorious so-called 'coffin homes' in Hong Kong aren't a pleasant ...
The government-organised Heritage Fiesta allows the public to visit monuments and historic buildings on certain days and take free guided tours in Cantonese and English. Some tours require advance ...
Crematoriums in Hong Kong are reportedly filling up as the region nears 1 million infections and faces the world’s highest COVID-19 death rate in its current outbreak. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie ...
Empty coffins are delivered to funeral businesses in the Kowloon district of Hong Kong on Thursday. (Isaac Lawrence / AFP/Getty Images) The repurposed AsiaWorld-Expo center in Hong Kong echoes with ...
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s COVID-19 outbreak has cost about 6,000 lives this year — and the city is running out of coffins. Authorities have scrambled to order more. The government said 1,200 coffins had ...
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 ...