HK running out of spaces for dead


HONG KONG: The waiting time for a niche in a public columbarium is more than four years, leading to the proliferation of private columbaria and a hot resale market.

Land-starved Hong Kong has a dead serious problem — it is running out of space to deal with the dead.

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