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Hong Kong authorities will release 16,150 new public columbarium niches from Monday, with 6,050 located in a smoke-free facility where the burning of joss sticks and incense offerings will be ...

Officials said applications for more than 16,000 new niches will open on Monday, including spaces at the newly-constructed Shek Mun Columbarium in Sha Tin, which is set to begin operations this year.

More than 16,000 new extendable niches at three columbaria in Fanling, Eastern District and Sha Tin will open for applications from May 19, the Food & Environmental Hygiene Department announced today.

During the festival, families visit the graves or columbarium niches of their ancestors, and make offerings of food such as roasted meat and fruit, along with placing incense and paper tributes.

The columbarium holds approximately 360 niches— 288 niches on the wall, 72 in the center — and each niche has room for the cremated remains of two people. The cost of the niches ranges from $ ...

The proceeds from the columbarium niche sales will be placed into a trust fund that will ... Visitors can also view an 80 percent scale replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall, mirroring the original ...

amend the terms and conditions of the columbarium wall to give families the option of including a small photo of the deceased on the niche plaque. A columbarium is a structure used for storing ...

Baye designed the cemetery’s newest columbarium. It was installed March 21 on the hill on the western edge of the cemetery, next to the mausoleum. It has 208 niches for cremated remains ...

Just up the freeway, USC is contemplating a columbarium as part of a planned ... baseball team to install 70,000 cremation niches in the outfield wall of its new park. Despite a potential windfall ...

the Council is confident of its ability to maintain availability of niches into the future to service individual needs as they arise," he said. The Columbarium Wall was opened for interments in late ...