Below are examples of human tragedies of the Asian financial crisis, the fruits of unregulated globalization. These tragedies occur almost daily all over Asia. South China Morning Post Thursday, June 10, 1999 Hong Kong Family die in murder-suicide ALEX LO Three boys and their parents were found dead in an apparent murder-suicide yesterday. The bodies of Ng Jo-yin, 12, Ng Ho-yin, 10, and Ng Chung-yin, 8, were found on a bed with their father, Ng Chung-kit, 42, and mother Lam Siu-ying, 39, in a Tin Shui Wai flat. The windows and doors of the flat were sealed and charcoal had been burned. Lam was lying to one side of the three boys, hemming them in against the wall, and Ng was lying across his wife and sons. A letter was left in the flat on the 18th floor of Shui Sum House on Tin Shui Estate. Firemen broke in after work colleagues called at the flat because Ng, a Regional Services Department cleaner, had been absent from his work since Monday. Yuen Long District Board member Chow Wing-kan said: "Mr Ng has been working as a grade two cleaner at a Sheung Shui market since early this year. "He had been unemployed since 1995 and found only temporary work from time to time. He came to me complaining about his livelihood and his children's education," said Mr Chow, who saw the bodies in the flat. "He and his family were very active and participated in district events and festivals. He had no bad habits that I know of, besides occasional gambling." Post-mortem examinations will be conducted today. Mr Chow said he saw the family "acting normally" on Monday night, returning home after a meal out. The mother was found in pyjamas, the eldest son in school uniform and the other two boys in T-shirts and pants. The two older sons were pupils at Ho Ming Primary School. The younger son attended Yeung Yat Lam Memorial School. Senior Inspector Poon Ka-yui from Yuen Long District Crime Squad said that forensic experts were examining the bodies. An incense burner was found in the room and all the windows were closed, with cloths and jeans used to seal the gaps. "The room and flat were very tidy. The bodies were neatly dressed," he said. FAMILY TRAGEDY Similar incidents October 19, 1998: Chan Lam Man-fong, 41, upset by her husband's affair with a mainland mistress, throws her two sons, 10 and six, out of a window before plunging 14 floors to her death in a Sheung Shui flat. September 1, 1998: Ex-policeman Wong Tak-lun, 30, kills himself and his two daughters, aged three and two, by directing fumes into his car parked at Bride's Pool Road, Luk Keng. May 4, 1998: Tsang Fong Ming-chu, 26, drowns her three-year-old daughter in a bath tub in her father's flat in Wong Tai Sin before leaping to her death in Tseung Kwan O. April 13, 1998: Medical doctor Betty Ng Yuk-ming, 47, injects her six-year-old son with poison before killing herself in their Happy Valley home. July 17, 1997: Bachelor Lam Ho-ming, 44, kills his elderly parents, aged 86 and 79, before jumping to his death from their Kennedy Town home. September 24, 1996: Unemployed Chan Ying-cheung, 41, survives a suicide pact in which his daughter, four; son, three; second wife, 29; his son from his first wife, 21; and two cousins, 32 and 40; were gassed at a Tsuen Wan flat. Chan is now held at the Siu Lam Psychiatrist Centre.