Hong Kong (CNN) — Hidden amid the multi-million dollar high-rise apartments and chic shopping malls of Hong Kong’s urban centers are scores of tiny, unseen tenements — some no bigger than coffins — that many people call home. Mak, 72, has lived in his four-walled “coffin home” overlooking the city’s Wan Chai neighborhood for the …
(Los Angeles Times) – Salvador Medina gladly helped his friend Alfonso Nava walk to his home in Exposition Park after a long night of drinking two weeks ago, lending him his sweater to help fight off the cold. The two were like brothers. But early Sunday morning, Medina awoke to gunshots in his front yard …
(CNN) — Thailand’s first elections since last year’s violent protests place it at the crossroads between national reconciliation and further destabilization, a scenario analysts believe could have serious implications beyond its borders. Squaring off against incumbent Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of the Democratic Party is Pheu Thai party leader Yingluck Shinawatra, whose party is leading …
Hong Kong (CNN) — On the roof of a 21-story office building in Hong Kong’s eastern district sits a grassy patch of hope that agriculture can thrive even in one of the world’s most congested spaces. The rooftop is managed by local entrepreneur Osbert Lam, who spends his afternoons amid the rows of planter boxes …