Burial

Boston Marathon bomber buried at secret site

10 May 2013

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was buried in an undisclosed location outside the city of Worcester in Massachusetts, police said yesterday after a frustrating week-long search...

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Funeral home struggles to find a cemetery for Boston bombing suspect

4 May 2013

A funeral home director is scrambling to find a cemetery that would accept for burial the body of one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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China Digest, December 10, 2012

10 Dec 2012

A blast at a chemical plant in Hefei killed one person and injured 10 others on Saturday, Xinhua reports.

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Architects unveil plans for floating columbarium

4 Nov 2012

A local architecture firm has come up with an ingenious way to alleviate the growing shortage of burial space - by turning a ship into a floating columbarium.

Bread Studio has developed the...

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Space at a premium even in death

21 Apr 2007

Space shortage is a perennial problem in Hong Kong. Most people work hard all their lives so as to save enough money to pay for the small flats they live in. Ownership of one's accommodation...

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Free remembrance gardens planned

19 Apr 2007

Scheme to scatter ashes over tranquil resting places aims to ease shortage of urn storage

Hongkongers will soon have a new kind of eternal resting place.

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Opinion

Tom Holland

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

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kevin sinclair's hong kong

Dying is an expensive business. Those in the funeral industry don't seem all that keen to bring down prices.

9:43PM

A last wish: death with dignity and respect

Losing a loved one is a traumatic experience. Imagine, then, the feelings of devastation on finding that your dead relative's body has been cremated by another family by mistake.

10:49AM

Don't let ceremony overrun meaning

Tradition has it that there's always light rain when Ching Ming comes.

3:19PM

Burying piglets alive a despicable act

I refer to the report headlined 'Disease threat to World Cup' (Sunday Morning Post, May 5), regarding the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in South Korea.

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News Review

News items help us learn more about our society. However, we also need to look beyond Hong Kong. The News Review, such as this story from the mainland, will help you get a glimpse of what is...

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Important family members given best burial positions

The whole process of worship at the grave begins as soon as the coffin is placed in a trench and carefully positioned by a fung shui master. It is then covered with a mound of earth. The practice...

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