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Amid Hong Kong’s crematorium crunch, even the dead have to wait
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People leaving carnations at a columbarium during the Qing Ming festival in Hong Kong.
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HONG KONG – Nearly six years after his stepfather died in Hong Kong, Professor Christopher Tang still recalls vividly the weeks of anguish he went through to put the older man to rest.
Just trying to snag a slot for cremation was a “barbaric hunger game”, he told The Straits Times, referring to the dystopian book and movie series about participants in televised death matches.
