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Posted on: 6:02 am on Jan. 8, 2007
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Posted on: 1:04 pm on Jan. 8, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Tuesday 9 January 2006 :-
Ousted vendors veto new Sunday Market home
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Vendors at the Sunday Market in Chatuchak, locked in a dispute with a land developer, yesterday rejected a move to a new site offered by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT).
The land, beside the original market, is plagued with crime, said Veera Udom, a leader for the retailers.
His comments came after learning of the offer made by SRT chairman Siva Saengmanee.
Mr Siva said the new site was convenient, only 15 metres away from the old Sunday Market.
The move would pave the way for renovation of the eight-rai Sunday Market, next to the famous Chatuchak Weekend Market.
The SRT last April signed a 12-year contract, worth 210 million baht, with Thanasarn Sombatpattana Co to lease the Sunday Market.
Clashes erupted between vendors and employees of the contractor who forcibly began demolishing the market in November.
The Lawyers Council of Thailand and the National Human Rights Commission are mediating the conflicts between retailers, the contractor and SRT, which has promised to find a new market site for the retailers and to prevent new clashes.
The SRT has accused the vendors of encroaching upon the Sunday market site. The vendors have filed a lawsuit against the SRT for the eviction. Further negotiations are scheduled for Jan 16, 2007.
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Posted on: 11:14 pm on Jan. 8, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Wednesday 10 January 2006 :-
City administration prepares three sites for evicted vendors
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The city administration has prepared three trading sites to accommodate vendors evicted from Bo Bae market, Bangkok's largest wholesale garment market. Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin said yesterday that the three sites also included the Saphankhao Sapsinpattana market, which the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) had earlier prepared for them to move to. The other two sites are the Sapsinpattana fruit market and the Bo Bae Plaza.
Mr Apirak said vendors wanting to trade at Saphankhao Sapsinpattana and the Sapsinpattana fruit market would be allowed to trade for free for a certain period of time as the firm Saphankhao, the operator of the two markets, had agreed that it would not collect ownership rights and rental fees for eight months. The BMA also asked the Promprap Sattruphai district office to find more trading venues. Operators of private markets will be urged to provide trading space for the affected vendors.
Bangkok Deputy Governor Putthipong Punnakan will survey weekend markets in the city to see which still have vacant spaces. The results will be known tomorrow, said Mr Apirak.
The BMA's move to prepare more vending sites followed last week's clash between angry Bo Bae market vendors and city police. The clash came after vendors blocked Kasatsuek Bridge from Jan 4 until Jan 5 to demand that the BMA remove its garbage collection trucks from the market area so that they could set up their stalls. The road blockade caused severe traffic congestion on several city roads, prompting police to apply tough measures to disperse the vendors. Mr Apirak said affected vendors have until Jan 19 to register for assistance. So far, almost 700 vendors have registered with the BMA.
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Posted on: 10:04 pm on Jan. 9, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Thursday 11 January 2006 :-
Evicted vendors plan to seek Prem's help
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Vendors evicted from Bo Bae market are preparing to seek help from Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda if the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) refuses to allow them to resume roadside trading for another six months. The vendors have asked Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin to remove fences from the footpaths along Phadung Krungkasem road so they can do business again.
They promised they would not set up stalls but would only spread sheets on the ground so they could display their goods.
Trader Wanpen Khamrak said the six months of trading would give the vendors some money to find a new location.
If Mr Apirak ignored the vendors' plea, they would seek help from Gen Prem, she said.
''Today about 1,000 vendors are in trouble because they have nowhere to sell goods. We have children to feed and have to pay for their education,'' she said.
Mrs Wanpen said the vendors could not move to a nearby private market, which was developed from a movie theatre, immediately as each of them had to pay a lump sum of 70,000 to 80,000 baht to reserve a new stall, plus the monthly rent.
In addition, she said, the new market is not suitable for their merchandise, garments.
About 100 vendors gathered in front of City Hall yesterday to seek a meeting with Mr Apirak. They had their children distribute leaflets which contained their petition to passers-by.
Their plea came a week after a violent protest that led to a clash between the vendors and police, which prompted the BMA to close down the area. More than 20 protesters were arrested.
However, some vendors managed to resume business yesterday as the BMA removed city inspectors who had stood guard on the footpaths.
Chanitsorn Suebsang, chief of Pomprap Sattruphai district office, said she was finding new locations for the vendors, adding that space and rent discounts were available at local private market buildings.
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Posted on: 8:54 pm on Jan. 10, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Friday 19 January 2006 :-
Offered sites not suited for wholesalers
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Merchants at Bo Bae market have complained that the new trading sites offered to them by City Hall are more suitable for retailers than wholesalers, who make up the vast majority of vendors there. Wanpen Khamrak, a garment wholesaler, said they were refusing to budge an inch, even though sheets of corrugated iron have been put up to prevent them trading on land that has been reclaimed by the city as public property.
She said nobody wanted to move to new locations such as Chatuchak Market and Sanam Luang 2, as they were markets for retailers, not wholesalers.
Ms Wanpen said only about 1,000 vendors were registering for city help at the Pomprap Sattruphai district office. The majority of the 3,000 vendors would not register because they feared being forced to move on to new sites.
Another trader, Prasit Chitsom, accused the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration of double-dealing. Several new locations proposed at a two-party meeting were in fact owned by private companies, despite the fact the city administration had earlier promised through the media that all trading sites would be under its supervision.
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Posted on: 8:32 pm on Jan. 18, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Saturday 10 February 2007 :-
Vendors protest at City Hall
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Defiant street vendors evicted by the city administration from the Bo Bae market early last month have now illegally set up stalls outside City Hall to protest against their eviction. Some 50 vendors set up stalls to sell garments, underwear and fruits at half price in front of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) headquarters in Phra Nakhon district yesterday.
They also put up banners protesting against their eviction from Bo Bae market in Pomprap Sattruphai district.
As thesakit city inspectors stood by, the vendors laid their goods on the open ground while some of them spoke through loud-hailers, claiming the eviction had landed them in deep financial trouble.
One of the traders, Wanpen Khamrak, said her group would not leave the City Hall's ground because they had failed miserably in selling goods at the new market arranged for them by the BMA. They vowed not to quit the Civic Ground since they had nowhere else to go.
She said the goods were selling well outside City Hall. ''City officials and people living nearby came to buy them. The vendors earned at least 1,000 baht each for the day. It's much better than the place the BMA arranged for us. I think more vendors will soon come here to join us,'' Mrs Wanpen said.
Deputy city governor Wallop Suwandee said yesterday it was illegal for Bo Bae vendors to occupy public areas and the thesakit inspectors were keeping an eye on them.
Phra Nakhon district chief Roengsak Horaruang has urged city officials and passers-by against buying goods from the protesting vendors.
He said that initially district officials would try to avoid using harsh measures. If more vendors turn up, he would try to talk them out of it. If the vendors still refuse to move out, he would take legal action.
The vendors were driven from the footpaths along Phadung Krung Kasem road.
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Posted on: 12:06 am on Feb. 10, 2007
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Report from Bangkok Post dated Monday 12 February 2007 :-
Bo Bae vendors told by BMA to use it or lose it
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The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has warned vendors evicted from the Bo Bae market that they will be stripped of their right to occupy trading space at the Chatuchak Weekend Market if they do not register for help within the next five days.
A similar deadline was also set by the BMA for vendors that have already signed up to trade at the new market but had not been using the space.
The weekend market is one of the venues the BMA has offered as substitution sites for the Bo Bae area from which the traders were recently evicted.
Bangkok Deputy Governor Putthipong Punnakan said the BMA had prepared 500 stalls at a parking lot opposite the Children's Discovery Museum close to the weekend market where they will be allowed to trade from Monday to Friday.
Even though 160 vendors have already signed up to reserve space at the new site, only 40 have shown up because most are still trading in small alleys at the old Bo Bae market site, he said.
''If they don't trade at the new location prepared by the BMA within three to five days, the city administration will reject their rights on the trading space despite the official reservation,'' he said.
The deputy governor warned district officials that if vendors were still allowed to trade at the old site, they would not give up the area and would continue to disrupt traffic and block public footpaths.
''Pomprap Sattruphai district office should be more cooperative by taking stricter action against the vendors and push them to new locations,'' he said.
The Bo Bae vendors have also been offered space at a purpose-built market at the old Ambassador theatre site.
But Jittakub Puengsue of Pattana Saphan Khao Co, a concessionaire for the Bo Bae development project, said the BMA was being too weak on the vendors who were still being permitted to trade around the old site.
''The BMA staff let them work on the sly in small alleys without pushing them harder to the new locations,'' he said.
Mr Jittakub said 120 vendors had registered to trade at the new market but only 20 had turned up despite being offered six months without any leasing fees.
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Posted on: 8:08 pm on Feb. 11, 2007
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