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From Our Own Correspondent: No room for the living or the dead.

17/04/2013

No room for the living or the dead.

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, No room for the living or the dead.

Why the dead have their own estate agents in Hong Kong, and vigilante groups in Mexico.

Jennifer Pak is in Hong Kong where there's not enough space for the living or the dead. Meanwhile Linda Pressly encounters the vigilante groups taking on the drug gangs in Mexico.

In this episode of From Our Own Correspondent Pascale Harter introduces stories from Hong Kong and Mexico. In a city of sky scrapers Jennifer Pak finds that even the dead need their own high-rises. While in Mexico, Linda Pressly has been meeting the villagers who have had enough of being at the mercy of the country’s violent drugs gangs and are taking matters into their own hands.

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