Vendor crackdown underway in Phnom Penh

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Kong Meta and Andrew Nachemson

 

Vendors are no longer allowed to sell on the capital’s busier thoroughfares, like those near the Royal Palace and Independence Monument, according to statements by Daun Penh District Governor Kouch Chamroeun yesterday.

 

In interviews with local TV channels posted on the official Daun Penh district Facebook page, Chamroeun said that the vendors create traffic congestion, especially in areas near tourist attractions. He also warned that gas tanks used by balloon vendors could explode, “causing accidents affecting tourists”.

 

As a solution, he suggested moving the vendors to other less busy locations, and maintained that police were not fining them.

 

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-- © Copyright Phenom Pen Post 07/09

[Jimbo2014]

What a shame Thailand doesnt implement a similar policy - or enforce an existing one if such exists.

[Asiang]

Yes sure Thailand would be fun without street sellers as in our monkey homelands.

What are you doing here ? go home !

 

 

[Jimbo2014]

7 hours ago, Asiang said:

Yes sure Thailand would be fun without street sellers as in our monkey homelands.

What are you doing here ? go home !

 

 

 

Thanks for the advice.  So you think its wrong want to walk down the pavement without stepping on foul water, bits of food or either stumbling into the road or ducking over people eating in the middle of the pavement.  You think this is traditional Thailand?  Im not against street food - provided they set themselves back in areas that dont crowd the pavement and that are cleaned and maintained.  It would be better for the customers, vendors and pedestrians.  It would be easy for the government to allocate much of the unused land around bangkok for this purpose - there are vacant blocks all over the city.  This would be a start in cleaning bangkok up and perhaps returning it to the way thailand may have been 100 years ago.