with little room to move and no privacy—this is the reality for hundreds of thousands of people in the highly populated city of Hong Kong, who live in what has been dubbed 'coffin homes' or ...

Leung used to manage a factory in mainland China before the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s, but now, estranged from his wife and two grown-up children, lives in a "coffin" home in Hong Kong ...

Wong, a 61-year-old Hong Kong resident, is one of a growing number of citizens forced into so-called "coffin homes," 20-square-foot cages that offer just enough space to lie down and hang a few ...

one of many in Hong Kong dubbed “coffin homes,” had cost around HK$5,000 a month in rent. Now the family pays HK$3,000 - 25 per cent of the income of the retired Lau’s wife, Tian Jiayu ...

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...

The Tung Wah Hospital group took over the building in 1899, when it was renamed Tung Wah Coffin Home. It is the only example of its type in Hong Kong that is still serving its original purpose as ...

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SoCO called for the new regulations to extend to “coffin” homes. “This kind of bed homes is the shame of Hong Kong,” said its deputy director, Sze Lai-shan. The Housing Bureau said the ...

Their previous flat, one of many in Hong Kong dubbed “coffin homes,” had cost around HK$5,000 ($650) a month in rent. Now the family pays HK$3,000--25 percent of the income of the retired Lau ...