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Video: A Cemetery's Waitlist

Posted by Ling Woo Liu Monday, May 18, 2009 at 5:14 am
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Here's our video story about Hong Kong's cemetery waitlists (go to the World section). What's it like to wait for more than a year just to get a one-square-foot space to store ashes? We wrote about this issue a couple weeks ago in the magazine. Read the full story here.

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