A Small, but Growing Group of Hong Kong People Find a New Life in Taiwan

A Small, but Growing Group of Hong Kong People Find a New Life in Taiwan
Taiwan's national flag flutters beside Taipei 101 at Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei on Oct. 7, 2012. Mandy Cheng/AFP/Getty Images
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TAINAN, Taiwan—Kitty Wong and Adolf Yim, both from Hong Kong, are finalizing work on a hostel in Taiwan’s southern city of Tainan that they hope will open its doors to holiday-makers next month.
This is the third hostel they are opening after arriving in 2016. The couple is part of a small but growing number of people from Hong Kong who have moved to Taiwan in recent years, many of them in search of a lower cost of living and worried about Beijing’s tightening control over the former British colony, which was given special autonomy under Chinese rule in 1997.