June 29, 2007
HK: Hong Kong's 'cage homes' reveal wealth gap
Tai Yum-po, 78, sits on his bed in a "cage home" in the Mong Kok district of Hong Kong. As as international financial hub Hong Kong boasts some of Asia's richest people and more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris or New York, yet out of its seven million residents, an estimated 1.25 million live below the poverty line.(AFP | M Clarke)