There are even smaller rooms known as coffin or cage homes, although they can be difficult to categorise. Hong Kong authorities have recorded about 110,000 subdivided flats in the city — a ...

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But Hong Kong - a wealthy metropolis plagued with ... Scattered around the island are microapartments filled with so-called "coffin homes" - rooms of 400 square feet subdivided into 20 or so ...

2. Grave-robbing racket saw city workers loot coffins of valuables such as gold, silver, medals, watches and more Hong Kong Urban Services Department workers were arrested in 1999 for stealing ...

PETALING JAYA: A tweet of a coffin-sized room, rented at an insanely high price ... their worries that the country might end up like Hong Kong. The short tweet along with a picture of a small ...