Lowu is open from 6.30am to 11.30pm while Lok Ma Chau opens from 7am to 10pm, but from December 1, both checkpoints will operate from 6.30am to midnight.

It was still easy to buy a fake Louis Vuitton handbag yesterday at Lowu Commercial City, a shopping and entertainment complex on the border with Shenzhen well known for its counterfeit goods.

Foreign businessmen can set up enterprises in Lowu without a mainland partner under a pilot scheme, Shenzhen Bureau of Industry and Commerce deputy director of registration Liu Fan said. The new ...