Keyword: "street vendors"

Authorities in Bangkok, Thailand have issued new rules to tighten control over street vendors.

The Thai cabinet has approved a loan programme worth 15 billion THB (431.5 million USD), aimed at supporting street vendors and hawkers to alleviate informal debt.

HCM City authorities are working on a project to renovate Ben Thanh Market, one of the city’s oldest wholesale markets.

CNN Travel has included banh mi (Vietnamese baguettes) among its top 24 sandwiches in the world in 2023.

Thailand's capital city of Bangkok has kicked off a project to offer space free of charge for hawkers and street vendors in the heart of the city in a bid to clear cluttered pavements.

Street vendors which are a unique feature of the culture in Hanoi is the theme of an art exhibition which opened on September 23 in Ho Chi Minh City.

The virtual exhibition, entitled “Memory of ancient markets”, officially opened via the website and fanpage of National Archives Centre No.1 of the State Records and Archives Department of Vietnam on April 25.

Districts in HCM City are looking into setting up designated areas for food street vendors in an effort to ensure pandemic safety and order on the streets.

Many traditional markets in Ho Chi Minh City are paying more attention to COVID-19 prevention, but some small traders and local residents are not taking necessary precautions.

Street vendors will be allowed to use sections of roads and pavements if they receive permission and pay fees for their business activities under a HCM City draft decision on road and pavement management.

Vietnamese pho has been named the world’s 20th best food experience by world travel guide book publisher the Lonely Planet.

The capital city plans to install 1,000 vending machines by 2020 to make shopping more convenient for local consumers as well as foreign tourists.

Street vendors have grown along with Hanoi through hundreds of years. They have become a symbolic image of the thousands-year-old capital.

Many roads and pavements in Ho Chi Minh City have again been encroached by illegal parking areas and street vendors after city authorities halted their campaign to clear the pavements four months ago.

Ambitious plans to establish designated areas for street vendors in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have yet to materialise, months after a “sidewalk clean-up” campaign fuelled debates over the future of street vendors.

Authorities in the southern economic hub of Ho Chi Minh City have issued an ultimatum, ordering all its districts to submit plans to the People’s Committee on getting rid of unplanned markets by July.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will hold Bangkok Street Food Festival in June.

The image of vendors holding a set of Quang Ganh (consist of a bamboo pole and two baskets made from different materials like bamboo) or riding bicycles across the streets has become common in Hanoi.

Some public areas in Ho Chi Minh City have been assigned for street vendors, giving them a chance to do stable trade along sidewalks in the city.

As the country is integrating deeper into the world market, a number of street vendors who come to pursue their dream in cities might lose their jobs, experts have warned.