After occupying the plaza beneath the icon HSBC bank headquarters in the heart of Hong Kong’s financial Central district for the past 10 months, Occupy Central will have to disband within the next two weeks in compliance with a court decision last Monday. Although participation had dwindled, it still had life when I visited Hong Kong in May, especially on weekends when campers were joined by workers wis
hing to show solidarity for the movement.
Sadly, Hong Kong now has the biggest wealth gap in Asia, with some people so poor that their “homes” are nothing more than a bunk bed surrounded by mesh, in what is known as a cage bed. Many apartments that normally hold one family have been subdivided into many tiny rooms that are rented out to the poor.
