Hong Kong protesters take aim at Chinese traders in fresh march

HONG KONG: Hong Kong activists gathered to protest against mainland Chinese traders in a town near the border on Saturday (Jul 13), seeking to ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong activists gathered to protest against mainland Chinese traders in a town near the border on Saturday , seeking to channel energy from huge demonstrations against an extradition bill to another problem they say the government has mismanaged.

A worker walks past post-it notes scribbled with messages, left behind by protesters on the walls of the Legislative Council, a day after protesters broke into the building, in Hong Kong, China Jul 2, 2019. Most of the protests have taken place in and around Hong Kong's central business district, but recently demonstrators have turned their sights to parts of the territory that have seen less political activity.

On Saturday, the focus again turned away from downtown Hong Kong to Sheung Shui, a town close to the border where so-called"parallel traders" from the mainland buy bulk quantities of duty free goods which they then carry into China to sell.

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