"Street vendors"

Many street vendors and taxi drivers said they are not satisfied with government measures aiming to cushion low-income earners from the impact of rising oil prices, a survey conducted by The Nation has learned.

Indrachowk, Kathmandu’s most crowded and noisiest shopping area that had remained eerily silent for nearly two months due to the prohibitory orders since April 29, came to life on Tuesday after the easing of various restrictions. The prohibitory orders in the three districts of the Kathmandu Valley were loosened after 52 days amid slowing down of Covid-19 cases.

The Cabinet on Wednesday approved new plans to manage street vendors and motorcycle taxi operations on Bangkok footpaths, including paying fees to occupy public space.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has found nine locations to support 185 street vendors who had been told to vacate from along Sukhumvit Road from Soi 1-21, and will this week summon the traders to discuss and register their details for space allocation, Deputy Bangkok Governor Sakolthee Phattiyakul said on Monday.

Street vendors, city planners and academics on Monday called for the government to hold talks by November 10 to find solutions to allow street stalls to remain in the country.

A street vendor network marched in Bangkok on Tuesday against government and city efforts to clear hawkers off footpaths.

Khaosan Road vendors will resort to “civil disobedience” from Monday if Bangkok authorities do not allow them to sell their wares during daylight hours, a leader of the Khaosan Road Street Vendors Association said.

STREET VENDORS in Khaosan Road – one of Bangkok’s most famous districts – are calling on the city’s administration to cancel the ban on footpath stalls in their area.

The problem is bigger than it might seem, encompassing both social and economic factors

The mobile food vendors, those with a pushcart or moto-trike, who ply the soi should be allowed, but those with semi permanent set-ups with chairs and tables blocking the footpath should go.

Communities must be put at the heart of urban development and planners must consider the impact of a city’s design also on inequality and on human lives

Street vendors in Saphan Lek have complained to the National Human Rights Commission over the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration move to shut them down.