Shadow Manila. Where squatters live in homes made from stolen boardings, bike tyres abd oil drums.
The official had called the country's Chinese minority "squatters" and said they were power-hungry "like the Jews in America".
However, one great service these autumnal arachnids provide is to eat the rest of the creepy crawling squatters in your home - they are particularly fond of clothes moths.
In these countries a substantial slice of the public, not just the far right, feels vindicated by the deportation of thousands of jobless Romani squatters from Italy and France.
There are now about 14 400 squatters in the urban area and about 204 500 squatters in the New Territories.
Other farmers moved farther west to reestablish themselves on other farms as squatters or homesteaders.
Franklin Brito, a 50-year-old farmer, died after a hunger strike to protest against Venezuela's government authorising squatters to occupy his land.
claim squatters' rights
They obtained a court order last year to clear the dilapidated structure of squatters.
In early December several thousand squatters, many of them immigrants from Bolivia and Paraguay, occupied a park in Villa Soldati, a poor district of Buenos Aires, demanding housing.
The squatters were evicted by bailiffs on Tuesday.
A boy's silhouette darkens a wall in Welkom, South Africa, where his band lived as squatters for 16 years.
Then there was a host of more informal businesses, from trading among mothers—you take care of my kids for two days, I'll feed you for five—to the squatters who did repairs.
But he says to help matters, the government is offering financial inducements to persuade squatters to leave.
These are now occupied by squatters who use the gravestones as tables.
The squatters were ordered to vacate the premises.
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in.
Up to 1998, 74 000 squatters had been cleared upon the GEO's recommendations - 58000 from urban areas and the others from some 200 more vulnerable villages and their vicinities in the mainland New Territories.
The numbers of squatters and squatter structures have been reduced in recent years as a result of rehousing and clearance programmes.