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...with its own laws, a set-up known as "one country-two systems." Nowhere is the demarcation more striking than at its border with Shenzhen?a line that Hong Kong people can cross freely but most mainlanders can only gaze at. The one-way traffic has become a nonstop flood: up to 200,000 people a day, 100 million crossings a year, numbers likely to triple by 2010. (Currently the border is open 16 hours a day; some want it to be 24/7.) Hong Kong businessmen have poured $15 billion into 70,000 firms in the border province of Guangdong...
...have risen tenfold. In a single weekend in March, police in Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong jointly raided 10,000 bars and nightclubs, arresting 1,411 people and seizing 307 kg of ice and 47,747 ecstasy pills. But Hong Kong police concede they're unable to stop the flood of drugs from across the border, which are often hauled back by teenagers to pay for their weekends. "The sheer volume at the border crossing provides opportunities for traffickers," says Paul Lewis, a senior inspector in the Hong Kong narcotics bureau...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu
...Staff Writer Joseph P. Flood can be reached at flood@fas.harvard.edu