A group of internet users are set to stoke tensions between Hongkongers and mainlanders by raising money for a front-page advert in a local newspaper to criticise visitors from across the border.
Members of the Hong Kong Golden Forum raised HK$40,000 in five days to fund the advertisement in Apple Daily. The biggest individual contributor gave HK$6,000.
The fund-raising posts on the forum have been made under the title 'Against Locusts'. Locusts is a term used by many disgruntled Hongkongers for mainlanders who they say swamp the city's resources.
Many of the proposed designs for the advertisement contain a picture of the insect. Some refer to what internet users call the 'unacceptable behaviour' of mainland visitors.
Forum organisers said the funds raised would allow them to buy a half-page advertisement on the front page of Apple Daily.
They will continue collecting money until Sunday.
