Would you stay in a coffin home? Life inside Hong Kong’s tiniest apartments

Hong Kong's housing crisis has led to the prevalence of "coffin homes," tiny, sub-divided living spaces often no larger than ...
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See the 'coffin homes' of the world's most expensive city

Hong Kong is one of the most expensive cities in the world. As a result, its residents are coming up with ingenious, and desperate, housing solutions.
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Hong Kong shoebox, coffin homes a challenge for new leader

HONG KONG (AP) — 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 ...
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Hong Kong’s COVID toll leads some to eco-friendlier coffins

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

‘It’s a nightmare’: Hong Kong runs low on coffins as Omicron exacts deadly toll

SINGAPORE — The repurposed AsiaWorld-Expo center in Hong Kong echoes with the moans of elderly COVID-19 patients. Kept in 8-foot cubicles, many go weeks without fresh air, sunlight or a bath. Some ...
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A Hong Kong company is selling cardboard coffins because of the city's COVID-related coffin shortage

About 6,000 people have died in Hong Kong this year from COVID-19. The city-state is running out of coffins. To make up for the coffin shortage, some companies are offering alternatives like cardboard ...