Sha Tau Kok

Milk traders able to skirt checks at border town

3 Mar 2013

Traders of contraband milk formula are shifting their operations to a historic street in the border town of Sha Tau Kok, which lets them skirt tighter checks on parallel exports that began on...

Will officials' resolve to stand up to the kuk crumble?

26 May 2012

Cheung Hok-ming, the lawmaker and vice-chairman of the Heung Yee Kuk, has proudly claimed that 'the kuk has never bowed to the government'.

Hordes swamp border zone

16 Apr 2012

Residents of border villages opened up to visitors after six decades of isolation have accused the government of poor planning after their homes were swamped by thousands of curious visitors in...

A new generation for regeneration

17 Mar 2012

The government's proposal to build artificial islands for housing purposes has stirred debate recently, with many pointing out that there is plenty of undeveloped land in the New Territories.

Villagers lure tourists as 60 years of isolation ends

15 Feb 2012

Villagers who have lived with years of border restrictions in Sha Tau Kok are looking forward to seeing their 'dead city' come alive as part of the area, including the Mai Po wetlands, opens for...

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Border Barriers fall after 61 years

Isolated from the rest of Hong Kong for 60 years, part of a border zone will be opened to the public on Wednesday - but people who live there have mixed feelings.

Shenzhen shoppers flooding into HK

Hong Kong may be a special administrative region, but Shenzhen residents see it is a special shopping zone, with a quarter of the Guangdong city's residents crossing the border more than once a...

Low-tech smugglers' hi-tech trade

A cross-border smuggling syndicate that used a 300-metre fishing line to ferry gadgets from Hong Kong to Shenzhen has been smashed in a joint operation by customs officers from both sides of the...

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Taskforce targets smuggling syndicates

With the success of a clampdown on pirated discs over the past decade, a 178-strong Customs Department team has shifted its target to cross-border smuggling.

82-year-old man dies while hiking