Infrastructure

Markets

Reprieve on cards for flower market

Poor management of City Hall’s proposal to move traders from Bangkok’s historic flower market, Pak Khlong Talat, may end up prolonging the market’s life — albeit temporarily. The deadline to ban over 1,000 street vendors from Pak Khlong Talat is 29 February. No formal announcement on an ...

DSI officials rescued by troops, police from angry Cambodian vendors

Over 100 Cambodian vendors attacked and besieged some 10 Department of Special Investigation officials and representatives of major brands at Thailand’s Rongklua Market in Sakaew on 3 February, injuring several officials. The DSI officials tried to arrest a Cambodian female vendor for allegedly selling imitated goods at ...

New Thongkhankham market rises from the ashes

The building that will house the new Thongkhankham market in Chanthabouly district, Vientiane, is now 50 percent complete and it is expected the whole complex will be finished by the end of this year. The modern five-storey complex and its two underground parking levels are a ...

Thailand looks to start building own military weaponry

Thailand’s defence industry has advanced to such an extent it could begin developing its own equipment through partnerships with the private sector, Deputy Prime Minister for security affairs said on October 2, 2015. Keep reading ...

Government hands down ruling in market dispute

A bitter dispute over the development of the main market in Ratanakkiri province’s Banlung City, which has pitted the city’s governor against a well-connected CPP lawmaker, was resolved by the Council of Ministers earlier this month in favor of the complainant, a wealthy businessman who ...

Mekong dwellers struggle to adapt to tides of change

Since its founding, the inhabitants of Can Tho city have sold their wares atop the water, which has become a tourist spectacle. This has been the way of life for as long as any resident here can remember, but things are changing. In recent years, local communities ...

Street food blues in the Kingdom’s capital

While street food vending is among Phnom Penh’s most visible cottage industries, proprietors are left in the legal dust as authorities demand unexplained “fines”. Dy Poch, the operator of a mobile grilled meat stall in front of the White Building tenements on Sothearos Boulevard, would rather ...

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