Festivity And Fighting As World Marks May Day

Rallies have been taking place around the work to mark May Day, with some demonstrations descending into violent clashes.

To mark the day, which traditionally celebrates the coming of spring and acknowledges the world's workers, people paraded in Russia's Red Square for the first time since 1991.

Russians saw a chance for patriotism amid the ongoing crisis in Ukraine

It is seen as the latest Soviet tradition to be revived in an effort to celebrate Russian patriotism, as tensions with the country's Ukrainian neighbours continue.

May Day was a key date in the Soviet calendar, with elaborate celebrations involving ranks of marching athletes, soldiers and workers on the Moscow square.

A Buddhist monk talks to police in Phnom Penh

However, recent years have seen far less spectacular events, with marches taking place locally instead of in the country's main square.

Rallies have also taken place across Asia, including in Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei and Seoul, where the annual march was expected to be a more sombre affair as South Koreans remember last month's ferry disaster.

A protester throws stones at riot police in Istanbul's main square

In Turkish capital Istanbul, police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters as tens of thousands of people tried to defy a ban on demonstrations in the city's Taksim Square.

It came on the anniversary of clashes that sparked a nationwide protest movement.

In Cambodia, security forces armed with sticks and batons forcibly dispersed dozens of May Day protesters near Phnom Penh's Freedom Park, with several people beaten, according to a news agency photographer.

Two people at a lake in Germany watch fireworks as part of a pagan festival

The park, opened by the government in 2010 to allow people to air their grievances, was sealed off with barbed wire as the authorities tried to halt protests against long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen.

"We are sad that we could not mark May Day properly. Workers' rights have been thwarted," said Ath Thorn, president of the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union.

A good-humoured protester holds up his placards in Taipei

Indonesia's workers were calling for better working condition in southeast Asia's most populous nation, although both sides were divided on how many people would attend.

In Hong Kong, union organisers said some 5,000 people were planning to join a march on government headquarters, with better working hours top of the agenda.

Morris dancers in Leicester take part in a May Day celebration

Malaysian civil society groups were expecting several thousand people at a rally in the capital, Kuala Lumpur, against government-backed price hikes.

And in Taiwan, thousands of workers were planning to march in a call for wage rises and a ban on companies hiring cheap temporary or part-time workers.

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