HOUSING is famously cramped in the Asian financial hub of Hong Kong, thanks to sky-high property prices, but a single toilet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Still, Hong Kong's roughly 110,000 sub-divided flats have become notorious for high rents, with a median floor rate of HK$50 ($6.43) a square foot, a survey by non-government body the Society for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even if they might want or need more space, residents are often within arm's reach of the things they treasure most.

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 ...