Changing strokes: Samsui woman Yip Say Mui, 90, has to alter her clothes now and again because she's shrinking. She used to stand at 1.58m tall but is now permanently hunched -- from carrying heavy loads all her life. Although her eyesight is still quite good, with her weakening hands, she finds it difficult to thread her needles for sewing, sometimes trying for over an hour to get a single strand through. Madam Yip died of throat cancer some months after these pictures were taken.