Newspaper vendors offered cash to display and hand out anti-Occupy posters
Distributor puts up HK$100 to post the messages, more to hand them out
The sole distributor and long-time partner of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily is offering vendors HK$100 to display personally signed posters opposing the Occupy Central movement.
Sum Tak-keung's CLT Books Distribution is also offering vendors 30 HK cents for each poster they hand out.
The posters, which read, "Say no to Occupy Central to safeguard livelihood", came in a separate stack with newspapers distributed to vendors yesterday.
The surprise move came 10 months after Sum was critically injured in a still-unsolved slashing attack and follows a reported row between him and Apple Daily over delivery times.
CLT said in a notice to vendors on Sunday that those who displayed the poster in a prominent position for a week would get HK$100.
The company declined to comment yesterday.
One Causeway Bay vendor did not welcome the offer.