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Hong Kong government to improve access to public columbarium niches

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HK Shatin Po Fook Ancestral Hill Source: SKOchelung (commons.wikimedia.org: GNU Free Documentation License 1.3)

Land-starved Hong Kong has a dead serious problem - it is running out of space to deal with the dead. Hong Kong government is proposing 20 years lease for the public niches to increase the turn-around time. Cheung Mo Ching reports.



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