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  • Khao San Road vendors defy BMA’s ban on sidewalk trading

    By Kornwaree Panyasuppakun “We will open and close our footpath stalls at the regular time.” Bangkok’s Khao San Road street vendors are defying the BMA’s ban on footpath stalls. City Hall has decided that the footpaths must be ‘returned to the people’ and that market traders are going to have to restrict their sales from 6pm – midnight, instead of the all day trading they’ve been providing to tourists in the past. About 70 per cent of stall owners started setting up their stalls after a symbolic street clean in the morning marked the beginning of the ban