1,000 hardliners to camp out in Wan Chai and join anti-globalisation rallies during WTO talks
More than 1,000 of Asia's most militant opponents of globalisation have confirmed they are coming to Hong Kong to take part in mass protests at the World Trade Organisation ministerial meeting this year.
The leader of the Korean Peasants League (KPL) says other hardline farmers' groups will bring hundreds more and that they intend to camp out in Wan Chai near the convention centre - where the meeting will be held in December - and stage protests across the city.
Hong Kong police - a group of whom have just returned from Scotland after monitoring the often violent protests against the G8 meeting in Gleneagles - say they have no information on the farmers' plans.
Korean farmers, including members of the KPL, were among the most vocal activists at WTO talks in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, where one of them stabbed himself to death while crying 'the WTO kills farmers'.
They protested furiously last year against South Korea's plans to open the country's rice market to imports, organising mass protests, lighting fires in front of the National Assembly, uprooting crops, blockading rice shipments and disrupting traffic with tractors.
