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Hong Kong's poor forced to rent cages -- to live in!
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 33473565:MV8yMTMxNDkxXzM1OTc1NDQxX0Q4NTk1ODZE] This is nothing new in Hong Kong, they have this Cages since this Town was created! Here in Japan/Tokyo we have many People (ca. 50.000 and more) who live permantly in Internet-Cafes, this is very similar! Have a look for Kowloon, walled City. Amazing Pictures!!! [/quote]
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KONG (AP) — For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, like Leung Cho-yin, home is a metal cage.
The 67-year-old former butcher pays 1,300 Hong Kong dollars ($167) a month for one of about a dozen wire mesh cages resembling rabbit hutches crammed into a dilapidated apartment in a gritty, working-class West Kowloon neighborhood.
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