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Inside Hong Kong's terrifying 'coffin homes' with 200,000 crammed into cage-like spaces

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 ...
WBAL

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 ...
Yahoo

Hong Kong's COVID toll leads some to eco-friendlier coffins

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 ...

Some of Hong Kong's poor finally feel at home in 290 sq ft modules

When Lau Kai Fai, his wife and teenage son moved into a new Hong Kong flat last month, he thought the 290 square feet (27 square metres) of space in his "module home" felt like "winning the lottery." ...
Yahoo

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

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 ...
Business Insider

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 ...
WHDH

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 ...