They are known in Hong Kong as “locusts”, the visitors from the Chinese mainland who converge there in their millions to stock up on everything from jewellery to milk powder.
Local residents have long complained that the shoppers clog up public transport and crowd out stores, but that long-simmering resentment is increasingly boiling over into angry protests.
Police on Sunday arrested six men at a demonstration in a suburban shopping mall alongside a rail line connecting Hong Kong to the mainland. One protester waved a colonial-era flag. Others yelled at shoppers to go home.
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