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Expensive casket hotel
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Updated: 2009-04-17 16:51
Expensive casket hotel

Hotelier Tang Yulian crawls from a coffin-like bed in her hotel in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan province, April 16, 2009. It costs 2,400 yuan (US$350), equivalent to the fare of a five-star hotel room, to rent one casket bed a night despite the shanty conditions. [CFP]