In the late summer of 2007, a fifty-year-old former barber named Siu Yun Ping began making regular visits from his village, in Hong Kong, to the city of Macau, the only Chinese territory where it is legal to gamble in a casino.

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Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near the Chinese University of Hong Kong--where his dad was a professor--he was more interested in hanging out with his friends and skipping school than in learning arithmetic.

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Hong Kong's Filipinas, in other words, replicate their village communities, and these surrogate families form a first circle of shared being.

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She had arrived in Hong Kong on 6 March and was last seen on Tuesday in the village of Tai Yuen Village.

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