Dooming a slum Hong Kong's infamous Walled City will be dynamited

The Boston Globe | June 13, 1991| | Copyright

HONG KONG -- For nine decades the Walled City has festered in the heart of this British colony's sleek Kowloon district, a lawless seven-acre enclave of opium parlors, whorehouses and gambling dens where police, health inspectors, and even tax collectors have not dared to tread.

The Cantonese call it Hak Nam, the City of Darkness. It is a ghetto of bizarre history whose 40,000 denizens, ranging from criminal gangs called triads to hundreds of unlicensed dentists and doctors, dwell in perpetual twilight.

Ramshackle multistory structures, put up without regard to any building code, tower so ...

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