Lo Wu

27 Apr 2012

If Google Street View had been around in the 1970s, images of Shenzhen would have been fairly uniform: large stretches of green farmland, the odd dusty trail, a few scattered villages - and that's...

Marks in passport foiled lying visitor

20 Mar 2012

A mainland woman has been jailed for five months for lying about her travel plans and tampering with her passport to conceal previous deceit.

Huang Zhen was convicted in Sha Tin...

Letters

25 Feb 2012

Triviality of sins is cause for relief

Recent storms in teacups over whether or not certain past and present government leaders took a lift on a friend's yacht, or extended a...

Tears and anger as families grieve for victims of bus tragedy

29 Dec 2011

Relatives of three Hongkongers who were killed when a bus crashed into a crowd of passengers in Shenzhen on Tuesday mourned at the roadside near the Lo Wu immigration control point yesterday.

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Up to 100 cross-border students lack permits

6 Sep 2011

More than 100 mainland students - some as young as eight - are being forced to use public transport when travelling across the border each day to attend Hong Kong schools.

Opinion

Jake Van Der Kamp

An age-old problem and the sums that just don't add up

Howard Winn

HSBC suffers the Taibbi treatment in Rolling Stone

Shirley Yam

How tycoons' IPO 'losses' may hide profits at herd's expense

We need to ask ourselves if a third runway is really needed at airport

We now have proposals to build a third runway at Chek Lap Kok. Predictably, and understandably, these have been made and supported by those who stand to benefit (the Airport Authority, the...

Diamond smugglers jailed in Shenzhen

A Hong Kong-based cross-border diamond-smuggling racket has been broken up, with the Shenzhen authorities seizing 200 million yuan (HK$238.19 million) worth of precious stones.

24 hurt when escalator goes into reverse

Twenty-four people were injured yesterday morning when an escalator suddenly jerked to a halt and reversed at a metro station in downtown Shenzhen.

14 Hongkongers arrested in smuggling bust

At least 14 Hongkongers have been arrested by Shenzhen and Xian customs authorities along with 36 mainland suspects in a bust of six computer-smuggling gangs.

Police also seized...

Out and about

Once about the furthest it was possible to go in Hong Kong and still remain in the territory, Lo Wu is only one of the several border - or boundary - crossings in use today.

Drivers protest over border-crossing closure

About 400 drivers from a private-car owners' association staged a slow-drive protest in Sheung Shui to urge the Hong Kong and Shenzhen governments to allow cars with no passengers to use the Man...