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How do you keep cool in hot Hong Kong nights when you live in a cramped subdivided flat?

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Most people dread going outside in the sweltering summer heat, but for Jiang Mingying, taking refuge in an air-conditioned home is not an option. Jiang lives in a 450 sq ft walk-up apartment with eight others in Sham Shui Po, one of Hong Kong’s most densely populated and poorest districts. Hot summer nights could be bigger killers than daytime scorchers, Hong Kong researchers say She spends most of her nights cooped up in her 40 sq ft cubicle which is boarded up with wooden...

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