Since then, city officials have doubled a fine for illegal hawkers, and said they will introduce a mobile app for residents to register complaints about hawkers.
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Soi Thong Lo's hawkers are scrambling to secure their livelihoods.
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Hawkers, beggars and street prostitutes are nowhere to be seen.
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And what happened to all the hawkers, beggars and prostitutes?
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"When hawkers join our system, they become bankable," he said.
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That younger demographic also forms the basis of Hawkers itself.
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Many of Mumbai's hawkers may not bother with the new system.
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VENEZUELAN hawkers on the border with Colombia call it "money art".
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"The problem is bargaining power between hawkers and distributors," Hernanto explained.
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My goal: to find out how these hoagie hawkers stack up.
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Asia's hawkers do not just provide cheap, delicious food for the masses.
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Life was supposed to be getting easier for Mumbai's 150,000-odd hawkers.
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For the most part, Bangkok's hawkers have proved to be adept improvisers.
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Strawberry hawkers elbowed each other to sell their wares at car windows.
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Three decades later, the alcohol hawkers, payday lenders, and pawnshops all remain.
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A plan is being drawn up to regularize hawkers, a city official said.
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Few hawkers are likely to be eligible: most are immigrants from poorer northern states.
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Among the few profiting from the situation are the teenage hawkers at the port.
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The female hawkers and fellow chewers standing close by all break out in giggles.
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Car horns and hawkers of used cell phones compete for the highest decibel count.
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The draft rules, however, include a requirement that would-be hawkers be domiciled in Maharashtra.
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Bachelor Nation is a community of post-Bach podcasters, wine designers, and hawkers of HelloFresh.
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The plight of credit card hawkers crowding college walks on orientation day should loom large.
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In the New York of my childhood, aggressive street hawkers offered drugs to passers-by.
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Your columnist marvels at hawkers on street corners selling flowers imported from South America at $10.
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Riot police known as "black boots" have used water cannons to try to remove the hawkers.
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She said Mumbai's hawkers will protest the new policy and challenge the domicile condition in court.
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The bus ride to Caracas was 13 hours; the hawkers say they come every two weeks.
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Remember the 1990s, when the hawkers of globalization told us this century would see borders fall?
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Hawkers wandered through the crowd with buckets of fresh pineapple and cucumber spears on their head.
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This has attracted some young hawkers looking for an escape route from dead-end office jobs.
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Only about 20,000 hawkers in Mumbai are licensed, with the number unlicensed estimated at more than 150,000.
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Only about 14,000 hawkers in Mumbai are licensed, while the number unlicensed is estimated at about 150,000.
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Outside the 251s Belgian-built whitewashed station, hawkers sell bus tickets south to Zambia and South Africa.
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"No one ever thought to prepare for rickshaws and pavement hawkers, the fringe people," said Mr. Wattas.
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The Express was distributed free of charge every morning by hawkers and in bins at Metro stops.
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Hawkers sold knick-knacks depicting Mr Shihab, the self-proclaimed "imam besar" (supreme leader) of all Indonesia's Muslims.
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With city officials adamant about enforcing the new regulations, Warunsiri said hawkers are unlikely to get a reprieve.
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Some of them are villagers, and their occupations range from drivers and hawkers to renovation workers, he said.
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There were no touts, no hawkers, no Bedouins offering camel rides, not even rangers to protect the sites.
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This is the first funding that Hawkers has raised since it first opened for business two years ago.
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Hawkers, hackers, and pickpockets hunting for iPhones all cram onto the pedestrian sky bridge that spans Zhongguancun Road.
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Unlike most temples in China, it bans hawkers and fortunetellers, and it does not charge an entrance fee.
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Hawkers sell the cheap snack on corners throughout the city, along with other traditional Cantonese snacks like siu mai.
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The violence flared amid rumours that officials were trying to clear away unlicensed hawkers selling local delicacies, including fishballs.
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Unlicensed hawkers often have to pay policemen bribes to continue selling, and must flee eviction drives by city officials.
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From hipsterish food-trucks to hawkers in favelas (shantytowns), businesses use it to plug their wares and take orders.
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Many business owners, from hawkers to tycoons, must hand over a slice of revenues, pushing them to the brink.
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As tourists we'd also been mindful of risks — intestinal bugs, malarial mosquitoes, pickpockets, hawkers with fake gemstones and silks.
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Come daybreak, Venezuelan hawkers jostle for hours to get a spot on a bus traveling to the Colombian border.
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To encourage Singapore's street hawkers to resettle into the centers in the 1970s, the government heavily subsidized hawker rentals.
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More than 80 people, including students, passers-by and hawkers selling coffee, were killed by the bombing that day.
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So large and loud, in fact, that they needed amplifiers and electrical instruments to cut through the din of hawkers.
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The hawkers continued like stars in their courses; their uniform affect was that of hot dog vendors with meth psychosis.
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Selling dozens of pimpinas a day, these hawkers supply up to 0.013 percent of all the gas used in Colombia.
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The hawkers have become a local tradition during the Lunar New Year, but this year, authorities tried to remove them.
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If such bounty is indeed to be had, expect the new rules to keep hawkers on the fringes of legality.
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Lookalikes of the so-called "fearless lady" used to send the kebab-hawkers on Anarkali Food Street running for cover.
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It's not just hawkers of air purifiers that have jumped on the opportunity to boost their business during the crisis.
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Hawkers may sell cards for more than $10 but it would be rash for them to try to undercut others.
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The six-month-old startup aims to bring the benefits of the digital economy to these humble "hawkers" in Indonesia.
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They can be leased from the company to replace the typically dowdy bike-based kiosks that are synonymous with hawkers.
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For centuries, city life has been defined by hubbub — town criers and curbside hawkers and mischief-making callithumpian marching bands.
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For those looking for woven textiles, there are markets and street hawkers, and specialty stores like the Centro de Textiles.
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"You and you!" he said, pointing to Chris Paul and Derek Fisher, two of the league's most notorious ball hawkers.
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The average age of hawkers is 59, according to a government report, well above the national workforce average of 43.
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One hawker, 38 year-old Lance Ngo, said that finding hawkers in their 20s "is more difficult than finding gold".
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An informal tent market gradually appeared on its periphery, with hawkers selling products as varied as spices and rare birds.
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"Traditional hawkers usually work individually but I don't believe in a one-man show and this is our advantage," he added.
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The hawkers, a common sight on Hong Kong's bustling streets, quickly attracted a strong social media following under the hashtag #FishballRevolution.
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Watch out for aggressive street hawkers, too-good-to-be-true deals, and stick to buying tickets from actual ticket counters.
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"Singaporeans are incredibly proud of their food, but our desire to pay our own hawkers so little says otherwise," he gripes.
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Hawkers displayed platters of honey-soaked sweets, vats of stew, golden rounds of cheese, sacks of spices and legumes and grains.
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Its national museum has created a traveling exhibition about the hawkers, and a government-led online petition has about 38,000 signatures.
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As a result, the Singaporean government began moving street hawkers into purpose-build food centers where they could be more easily monitored.
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To supplement their performances, many of the 48 current members take up jobs as junk collectors, street sweepers, or roadside cigarette hawkers.
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You know, when you used to go and hire a van there was no musicians, no hawkers, no gypsies, no one Irish.
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The Hawkers nursed the then-emaciated fox back to health three years ago by mixing medication from the vet into dog food.
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The hawkers, long a common sight on Hong Kong's bustling streets, quickly attracted a strong social media following under the hashtag #FishballRevolution.
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There was no formal date in the Uztari calendar for the Hawkers' Market, but the thawing of the Necklace told the time.
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Datanalisis, a Venezuelan polling company, estimates that more than half of all Venezuelans have purchased from black-market hawkers, known as bachaqueros.
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Journalists from respected newspaper Dawn have faced intimidation and harassment and hawkers have been banned from distributing the newspaper in military cantonments.
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Hawkers then designs the glasses itself and works with a small number of producers — across China, Italy and Spain — to make them.
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One of the house's best perks, Mr. Hagerman added, is its proximity to the fishmongers, tradesmen and noodle hawkers who work nearby.
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Children play amidst knee-high garbage, and crowd around to share slices of jello topped with sugar, or other sweetmeats sold by hawkers.
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A politician for the opposition Congress party claims the current system allows officials to squeeze some 3bn rupees ($44m) a month from hawkers.
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Perhaps the most important focus of the business is that it helps hawkers get better pricing when it comes to sourcing their produce.
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"It felt like a place we could kind of dig into," said Mr. Hagerman, who has photographed hawkers and markets across Southeast Asia.
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Over the years, he has jealously guarded the corner against interlopers: He outlasted the hawkers of free papers who appeared a decade ago.
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Wander the narrow alleys strung with red-paper lanterns, past bubble tea cafes and hawkers luring passers-by with multilingual dim sum menus.
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Street hawkers were setting up their wares on sidewalks as part of the thriving informal economy that has replaced the collapsing formal sector.
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Passing street-hawkers pause at the tables to offer everything from fried plantain to cigarettes, chewing gum, roasted caterpillars and plywood chess boards.
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In a world of diet tea hawkers, Instagram personalities, and high-profile "influencers," Gaga has maintained an authenticity that can&apost be taught.
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Sergio Perez has tweeted that he will ditch sunglasses brand Hawkers as a sponsor after a controversial comment it made regarding Donald Trump.
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Oversight was largely left to the district urban management bureau, which deals with a hodgepodge of issues, such as hawkers, illegal parking and litter.
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"I'm barely surviving," said 40-year-old Amos, one of scores of hawkers selling black market gasoline on a busy street in the capital.
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Street hawkers in South Sudan have better mobile phones than the brick that Gordon Gekko, a fictional tycoon, flaunted in "Wall Street" in 1987.
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To combat that, Kedai Sayur groups together orders and negotiates better-than-retail rates for its hawkers, who order their produce through an app.
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A "fishball riot" broke out in Hong Kong following reports that officials were trying to clear unlicensed food-hawkers from a working-class neighbourhood.
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Like others in that generation, Hawkers takes a lot of cues from its audience of mostly younger customers in terms of what to produce.
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I remember aromas of masala-fried pomfret, generosity of gruff cabbies saying, "No madam, you keep the change," daylong cries of crows, hawkers, doorbells.
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Hawkers peddled Music City Total Eclipse t-shirts on every corner while a cacophony of country music blasted from Broadway's endless row of honky-tonks.
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Singapore faced this problem years ago, and moved its hawkers off the streets into dedicated, convenient "hawker centres", with running water and regular hygiene inspections.
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So, when their taps run dry, citizens turn to private water hawkers and water trucks, bore their own wells, or use polluted rivers and streams.
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The event was dubbed the Fishball Revolution as the police action against local-food hawkers was seen as a crackdown on local culture and identity.
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The decision sucked 86 percent of cash out of circulation, and everyone from street hawkers to big consumer goods firms suffered a slump in sales.
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Hernanto said some enterprising hawkers sell coffee, bread and other daily products on the street or at night markets, in addition to their vegetable sales.
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In the Malta market, Syrian hawkers and shopowners peddle their goods along narrow cobblestone streets that resemble markets in Damascus and Aleppo, albeit much smaller.
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Asia is famous for its street food, with hawkers serving fresh foods and local delicacies in cities including Hong Kong, Bangkok, Jakarta, Hanoi and Mumbai.
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Activists, who were angered over authorities' attempts to regulate the food hawkers selling local holiday delicacies, battled with police into the early hours of Tuesday morning.
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He is a member of Diomcoop, an initiative launched in March that enables street hawkers to undergo business training and sell merchandise at official city markets.
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The few that are genuine mostly come from clods of earth churned up at the city's construction sites, which shard-hawkers creep on to at night.
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The clashes broke out after police moved in to clear "hawkers", or illegal vendors who sell local delicacies, trinkets and household goods from makeshift streetside stalls.
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This year, we expect to see a lot of news from the usual CES suspects: TV makers, automotive companies, wearable device hawkers, and even VR companies.
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Running off to the battle pits the day before the Hawkers' Market was the kind of recklessness for which their father would have beaten Brysen breathless.
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Kansas will wear military-themed uniforms Saturday inspired by the state's history as a free state during the Civil War and the "Jay-Hawkers" volunteer cavalry.
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Although the hawkers were unlicensed, they were supported by Hong Kong residents who saw them as emblematic of local culture, which they feel is under threat.
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For long stretches of our trip, the only people we saw on the roadside were hawkers waving glossy brochures, trying to lure us to open houses.
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Sakilla has opened several pharmacies, where trained staff dispense quality medication, as a safer alternative to hawkers who sell drugs out of cardboard boxes on the street.
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The opioids of abuse in America are highly regulated, but in Africa nearly anyone can get tramadol—and not just from street hawkers, but from legitimate pharmacists.
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Meanwhile, Mexican Formula 1 driver, Sergio Perez, ditched sunglasses manufacturer Hawkers on Thursday, after they published a tweet encouraging Mexicans to buy sunglasses to hide their tears.
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Street hawkers sell food, clothes and home appliances on sidewalks, or wherever they can find a captive audience, like Nigeria's epic traffic jams, known as go-slows.
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The startup also provides hawkers with a financial float that allows them to upsize their order without necessarily having the money up front, as is currently required.
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Two lithographs from 1827 by European visitors to Rio, capital of the new empire of Brazil, depict picaresque street scenes crowded with traders, monks, hawkers and slaves.
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Lagos has such epic traffic jams that an army of street hawkers plies the roads, selling peanuts, Christmas trees and puppies to a captive market of drivers.
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Arbind Singh, coordinator for the National Association of Street Vendors of India lobbying group, said the new law will only divide the hawkers and further alienate migrants.
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It was the day before the Hawkers' Market, and Kylee found her twin brother exactly where she had hoped not to find him: at the battle pits.
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And then there are the statuettes: a vast army of miniature imitation Davids that stand in shop windows and on hawkers' carts in all the famous piazzas.
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Mr. Singh, who turned 81 this month, is one of only a handful of independent newspaper hawkers still plying his trade on the streets of New York.
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The majority of the hawkers on Sukhumvit Soi 38 are still there, albeit mostly wedged into a fluorescent-lit indoor area off to the side of the street.
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But nativist politicians may change that: in the name of helping hawkers, they are trying to impose new rules that would bar most of them from the trade.
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Beyond that you'll find an always-bustling intersection jammed with shoppers, street hawkers, cars, busses, trucks of migrant workers bound for the US, and people begging for change.
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Monaco is essentially a bazaar for the 0.1%: everywhere you look there are hawkers in pop-up tents trying to sell things that you never knew you needed.
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The displaced vendors can at least find company in their misery: over the past two years Bangkok's municipal government has evicted almost 15,000 hawkers from the city's pavements.
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The festivities took a turn for the worst around 10pm, when police donned riot gear in a bid to clear hawkers selling their wares along a main thoroughfare.
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Dramatic video footage shot by bystanders shows skirmishes between law enforcement and hawkers on the streets of Mong Kok, a busy residential and commercial part of Hong Kong.
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The hawkers often compete directly with the malls, selling their wares to people driving into parking lots next to retailers like Game, a discount superstore owned by Walmart.
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This augments trade that hawkers traditionally do offline and, according to Hernanto, combined with working capital, some vendors have increased their take-home profit three or four-fold.
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Earlier this month, hundreds of hawkers marched to city hall following a daytime ban on vending on the sidewalks of Khao San road, a favorite haunt of backpackers.
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Restaurant Row, 46th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues, on the fringe of Broadway, is conspicuously garish, with low-priced pre-theater restaurants and hawkers stalking passers-by.
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Georg Jensen is on Amagertorv, home to the Stork Fountain, a square that interrupts Stroget and tends to attract a wide variety of street performers, protesters and hawkers.
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Last year, Leung was sentenced to six years in prison for his part in a violent nightlong clash with police over illegal street food hawkers two years ago.
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The festivities took a turn for the worst around 20163pm, when police donned riot gear in a bid to clear hawkers selling their wares along a main thoroughfare.
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In an attempt to lift the flagging tourism industry, he introduced a one-year licence fee waiver for travel agents, hotels and guesthouses, as well as restaurants and hawkers.
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Orders are made by 6pm each day, and delivered to hawkers by 5am the next morning, Kedai Sayur co-founder and CEO Adrian Hernanto told TechCrunch in an interview.
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First they have to take a yellow taxi to the crossing, which consists of a taxi rank with a few hawkers selling food and refreshments or toys and gifts.
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The snack sparked a so-called revolution in February, when the police began to harass fish ball hawkers in the popular Mong Kok pedestrian area for operating without licenses.
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Workers' organizations say many hawkers, who have migrated from rural areas to Mumbai to seek work and escape poverty, cannot afford property in Mumbai, India's financial and commercial capital.
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Ramaphosa emerged from the beachside conference venue for an impromptu walkabout among vendors selling ANC paraphernalia but he took no questions as he chatted and joked with the hawkers.
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Army trucks and tankers joined Harare's regular municipal police in a drive against the hawkers, pursuing them through the streets of the capital while firing teargas and water canons.
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The loudspeakers have been hushed, and the hawkers have packed up their wares or closed their doors, since the use of electricity and the transaction of business are forbidden.
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A longtime activist and member of the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, Mr. Zvorwadza is also chairman of the National Vendors Union, an association of street hawkers.
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I chat with the older male and female hawkers, guards and food sellers I pass, buy a thing or two and let them know how long I'll be around.
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Instead, Star Lizard can be found in the Camden Locks, in a bohemian neighborhood known for drug raids, food hawkers, throngs of tourists and a devotion to Amy Winehouse.
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"I try to do this as long as I can, but I am old," said Leong, one of many older food vendors or 'hawkers' in the Asian city-state.
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But the enthusiasm cannot mask one underlying problem - Singapore's hawkers are getting older and their better-educated sons and daughters are increasingly shunning cramped, sweaty kitchens for office jobs.
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After being notified of the demolition plans a week or so beforehand, the hawkers, in protest, refused to leave and demonstrated right up until their stalls were knocked down.
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Many of the factories have closed, but you'll still find the streets of this 24-hour megacity buzzing with thousands of hawkers dishing out cheap eats late into the night.
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Despite talk of implementing training, uniforms, and regulations, and relocating thousands of hawkers, so far no clear plan has been released as to how any of that might be accomplished.
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Mr Mugabe thinks hawkers make the city look dirty, and wants them moved to a dusty patch in a depressed industrial area of Harare where there would be fewer customers.
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A Kedai Sayur hawker [Image via Kedai Sayur] Most hawkers are comfortable with cash — it is, after all, the tradition — but it makes paying the working capital back somewhat cumbersome.
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Reuters photographers took the streets of cities across the continent to capture traders and hawkers selling everything from Santa hats and fake beards to colorful tinsel and shiny tree baubles.
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Unlicensed hawkers often have to pay policemen bribes, and flee eviction drives which are becoming more common as cities are upgraded with high-speed internet and air-conditioned metro trains.
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On the street, firefighters washed the mingled blood of generals and hawkers into the muddy stream of the Kabul River, its waters so often dyed red in just this way.
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Those indistinguishable Little Italy flytraps with their sidewalk hawkers, their holy-communion-ready wines, their lifeless linguine facedown in a shallow pool of clam sauce: They could stand some competition.
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The series stands apart because the extreme budgets involved allowed the street running through the Ponte Vecchio to burst alive with hawkers' shouts and Savonarolan sermons belted from disdainful doomsayers.
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As mayor of Cascina, she has instructed the police to remove immigrant hawkers, hired private security guards outside schools and handed out pepper spray to Italian women in her town.
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But in Paris, juice bars and cafes stand in for beverage hawkers, the roads are cobblestone instead of dirt and concrete, and the displays are contained behind glinting glass vitrines.
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Does your opinion about what, if anything, should be done about boat ticket hawkers change as a result of knowing more about the backgrounds of some of the people involved?
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Last week, after doing a Pad Thai run to Jacksonville, FL's Hawkers Asian Street Fare, a guy named Logan Doan noticed an unexpected note at the end of his order receipt.
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" With the working capital — which is not a loan — he explained that hawkers can "order as much as they can sell and then pay later after they receive payment from customers.
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Images of the urban environment, including skyscrapers, industrial sites, makeshift stores, and street hawkers are contrasted with idyllic scenes of rural landscapes, such as roaming cattle, mountain hills, and winding roads.
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HAD you wandered in 1950 past Sealdah railway station in Kolkata, weaving through the newspaper-hawkers, basket-carriers and mule-drivers, you might have spotted Manohar Aich sitting under a tree.
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Hundreds of vendors are sleeping in the streets of the Venezuelan border town of San Antonio, while the surge in hawkers on the Colombian side is stoking anger among local shopkeepers.
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Later, they saw that while several abandoned buildings near the Graham Street Market had been razed for new construction, others were still standing, right beside the market's open-air vegetable hawkers.
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While around 40 percent of older hawkers still enjoy low rents, new hawker stalls are sold in an open bidding process, often making rentals much more expensive, especially at popular sites.
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But unlike licensed hawkers who work from rows of wooden stalls, Mbiku cooks in the open air and is often harassed by the city militias for selling food without the proper papers.
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The incident sparked much of the anger that exploded in the February riots: Many failed to understand why the police had done nothing for Lee, but cracked down on fish ball hawkers.
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While the public beaches were crowded with families, stray dogs, surfers, snow birds and hawkers selling everything from flan to mass-produced tchotchkes and handmade stuffed animals, the resort's beach was tranquil.
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Pérez said that Hawkers is currently seeing an annual turnover of €90 million ($78 million) and is already profitable and projecting revenues of €150 million in 2017 and €300 million in 2018.
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The couple liked the house partly for its history, and partly because it was a few doors down from street-food hawkers and some quirky shops, including one that sold only eggs.
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In central Buenos Aires, hawkers known as "arbolitos" regularly shout out "cambio", offering currency exchange to passers-by, then taking them to backrooms or street stalls where they unveil stores of cash.
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Two years later, social unrest erupted after a scuffle between the police and street hawkers and their supporters, who came to the sellers' defense in the name of protecting Hong Kong traditions.
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Many hawkers in Phra Khanong are carrying on with business as usual, while the sidewalks of Thonglor, now an endless sea of glitzy Japanese restaurants, cocktail bars, and community malls, are essentially vacant.
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Too often, their programmes open a back door to dirty money; think of the ill-gotten Russian gains that have been laundered through Cyprus, one of the EU's most enthusiastic hawkers of passports.
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Much is flowing from Malaysia, a Muslim-majority country that is home to more than 50,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers, where many of them work as daily laborers, hawkers and construction workers.
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The most visibly striking part of Kedai Sayur's offering to hawkers is an upgraded mode of transport: three-wheeled vehicles that are brightly branded and contain a chiller section to keep produce cool.
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He isn't providing revenue details, but the company said in a press release that GMV — the total amount of product bought from its hawkers — has grown five-fold in the past four months.
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The atmosphere at Hyderabad's demonstration was festive, with hawkers selling lemonade and snacks, protesters sporting painted Indian flags on their cheeks and groups of women banding together in song until the sun set.
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The government has introduced schemes in recent years to get veteran hawkers to pass on their skills to the next generation, teach business skills and subsidize equipment and rent to reduce overhead costs.
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But these new generation hawkers are also continually reinventing the way their stalls operate, taking their cues from a range of influences, from cutting-edge Japanese food technology to the whims of social media.
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HONG KONG – A Hong Kong court has sentenced activist Edward Leung to six years in prison for his part in a violent nightlong clash with police over illegal street food hawkers two years ago.
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The comedy hawkers of Times Square do not get as many headlines as the topless women or aggressive costumed panhandlers — Chewbacca and a Stormtrooper were arrested last week — with whom they share the crossroads.
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He took his team to Gaon, one of just two restaurants in the country to have three Michelin stars, and to street hawkers that are blending Western and Eastern tradition to create new dishes.
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But hawkers enhance the business environment, make localities more dynamic and walkable, and help deter crime by being the "eyes and ears" of the neighborhood, said Narumol Nirathron, a professor at Bangkok's Thammasat University.
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The city's Lunar New Year festivities took a turn for the worst around 10pm last Monday, when police donned riot gear in a bid to clear hawkers selling their wares along a main thoroughfare.
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Hawkers touted posters and drinks, many fans wore $15 commemorative T-shirts and a vintage pink Cadillac, a tribute to Ms. Franklin's hit "Freeway of Love," was on display in the front parking lot.
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While many food businesses have remained open by offering online deliveries, few food hawkers - who favour locations in public areas popular with pedestrians - use such services because of the cost and their informal status.
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That year, on February 8 in the Mong Kok neighborhood, a young, fringe political group called Hong Kong Indigenous rallied supporters to block authorities who were attempting to clear illegal hawkers from the streets.
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Now, the chorus of entreaties from the endless parade of hawkers through the bazaar's El Fishawy cafe holding out armfuls of wallets, necklaces, rugs, ottoman covers or gorilla masks can be a bit too much.
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In Karagumruk, on bazaar day, one day a week, the hawkers set up wooden tables and stack pyramids of unmarred oranges, sea bass flayed red at the gills, olives from five cities glistening in bins.
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I wanted to see how a more affordable option might stack up, so I headed to New York City's Chinatown, where street hawkers are known to sell knock-offs of the world's finest luxury brands.
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The hawkers sold the jet-black locks to wigmakers in Guro, a district of south-western Seoul that was home to the first industrial complex built in South Korea after the war for the export market.
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Traditionally, authorities have turned a blind eye to unlicensed food stalls during the festive period, but authorities took a stronger line against them this year, fencing off areas which had previously been used by the hawkers.
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In February police used batons and pepper spray and fired two warning shots into the air in Mongkok district during a crackdown on unlicensed street hawkers that snowballed into a riot—China blamed it on "separatists".
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Street dogs trot lazily between vendors peddling local apricots (200 grams, almost half a pound, will run about 2300 rupees), while hawkers call from their storefronts, promising the best prices for pashmina shawls and handmade crafts.
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Photo by Trey Menefee Police spokesperson Stephen Yu Wai-kit told reporters that police only intervened because Food and Environmental Health officers had been unsuccessful in their efforts to shut down the hawkers in Mong Kok.
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In the wake of Trump's controversial comments regarding the US/Mexican border and his shock win in the US election, Perez wasted little time responding to the tweet, claiming he will end his relationship with Hawkers.
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People ranging from taxi drivers and street hawkers to big consumer goods firms have seen their earnings plummet by as much as 80 percent in the first week of the swap alone, according to some analysts' estimates.
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While there are a number of companies like Snap that are approaching sunglasses as yet another piece of wearable, connected hardware, this is not the area where Hawkers is hoping to make its mark (not yet, anyway).
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His hometown of Kattankudy is some seven hours' drive from Colombo on the other side of the island nation, past the countless palm trees, roadside Buddha statues, cashew hawkers and an occasional lumbering elephant in the bush.
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I found out which people were shameless enough to follow a bunch of racy accounts, which friends were brand hawkers or just really liked brands, and which friends branched out to weirder parts of the Instagram community.
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The buskers see themselves as one of the last preserves of ancient China's "jianghu" (meaning "rivers and lakes") tradition of itinerant hawkers and performers who bucked conventional respectability in a subworld with its own argot, rules and customs.
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Jagdeep Singh, 35, from the northern city of Chandigarh, recently chatted with his brother-in-law on Goa's main strip of beach, which was dotted with trash, umbrellas stamped with beer logos and hawkers selling beads and scarves.
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Some claim that these early hawkers on Djurgården, the leafy, park-covered isle in the city center, were ladies with boxes hung around their necks, while others insist they were corpulent men with hot dogs balanced on their bellies.
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Coronas and Pacificos can be delivered for $2 each, families whiz by in rented ATVs, terrified kids take their first ride on horses, hawkers come by with everything from candy to clothes to shaved ice to massive fucking iguanas.
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And in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, the authorities frequently evict hawkers or keep them in limbo by forcing them to pay thousands of dollars in annual "security" and "cleaning" fees that still do not guarantee a right to work.
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Tay said most hawker stall owners were in their 50s and 60s with a wave of retirements expected in the near future but new initiatives to find replacements were showing signs of promise, such as pairing aspiring hawkers with experienced hands.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India's western Maharashtra state has passed a law requiring street hawkers to have lived in the state for 15 years before they can apply for a license, in a move vendors say unfairly targets poor migrants.
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The Washington Post, CNN and Twitter had their own hospitality setups at restaurants on East Fourth Street, a pedestrian walkway thronged by people and hawkers selling campaign paraphernalia: T-shirts that read "Hot Chicks for Trump," and pins denigrating Mrs. Clinton.
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During the eight or nine tours she leads a week, Ms. Lau, 26, gathers people at the subway station in Mong Kok, a teeming area where there were clashes last summer when the police tried to crack down on street hawkers.
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Hawkers and informal structures have become an entrenched part of life in Karachi in the decades since it transformed from a quaint port village into one of the biggest cities in the world, with a population of at least 15 million.
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The Mexican F1 star took exception to a tweet from the official Hawkers account, intended to be light-hearted, which suggested that Mexican citizens could use its glasses to not show their 'crying eyes tomorrow when you are building the wall'.
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NGOMOROMO, Uganda (Reuters) - It started out as a normal Monday morning in Pajok in South Sudan - children walking to school, shopkeepers raising their shutters and hawkers laying out their wares in the market, where a shower had just dampened down the dust.
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This year, teenagers as young as 14 were among those detained when a protest against what they said was the authorities' crackdown on street hawkers — seen as emblematic of local culture — escalated into the worst rioting in Hong Kong in half a century.
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During New Year celebrations last year, in the Hong Kong district of Mong Kok, violent clashes broke out between the police and protesters who said they wanted to defend the New Year tradition of food hawkers' selling fish balls and other street snacks.
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On West 47th Street, New York Loan Company visitors edge past fast-talking gold hawkers, jewelry hustlers, murmurs of Yiddish slang and ever-present police to enter the gleaming 35-story International Gem Tower, where the pawnshop is on the third floor.
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I returned to satisfy my craving on another drizzly evening, bypassing stalls cranking out sugar cane juice and urojo to make a beeline for a row of pizza hawkers with names like Mr. Delicious and Mr. Big Banana before the rains triumphed again.
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Bangkok imposed a ban on all commercial activity on the sidewalks of Khaosan road which for decades has been filled with food hawkers, shops and stalls selling bags, wigs and hippy-era clothing, surrounded by bars, restaurants, tattoo parlors and cheap hostels.
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"It must be a march for the sex workers," she said, motioning toward a group of young, fresh-faced people winding their way through the chaotic line of taco stands, prostitutes, police, and various hawkers of secondhand wares that clog Avenida C Niños Héroes.
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Nor is it because of a lack of enterprise and optimism: on the permanently traffic-jammed streets of Lagos, Nigeria's main commercial city, hawkers gingerly ease their way between cars trying to sell almost anything from snacks to books, pirated DVDs and even toilet seats.
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In it is beautiful footage of human connections to dogs that's moving in a way the bite-sized dogtent that's all around us—the copious Twitter accounts of adorable doggos, the Instagrams of dog influencers and canine-facing product hawkers—can only touch upon.
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Dodging bicycles, a crush of pedestrians, and the occasional pedicab, I wound my way through the barrage of colorful LED lights and street hawkers selling pomegranate juice, chunks of durian and roujiamo, a sandwich stuffed with chipped beef and hot, spicy oil (15 yuan).
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DSR, which is all-new for the Olympics, is more dedicated to delivering drinks and concessions to attendees on-site at venues, with people being able to order from a dedicated tablet — a modern replacement for hawkers walking the stands with trays of popcorn, peanuts and drinks.
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Q. Over the Chinese New Year holiday, a protest claiming to defend street hawkers at Mong Kok led by Hong Kong Indigenous, a group advocating resistance to mainland Chinese influence, turned into a riot, with hundreds of young protesters displaying a level of violence unseen in decades.
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The trip "would root us back to our cultural homeland, this cacophonous place of silk hawkers and honking horns and a deal around every corner, where heavy velvet lehengas hang from shop windows like so many skinned chickens," she writes in this essay for our Travel section.
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That night in early 2016 Mr. Leung and colleagues from his party, Hong Kong Indigenous, rose to the defense of street hawkers selling fish balls and other delicacies to New Year revelers as food inspectors tried to clear them out, in front of police officers standing by.
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I lived in Lakeview when I first moved to Chicago in the winter of 2012, and the environs directly outside the stadium—once a bustling ecosystem of hawkers selling peanuts, shirts, and water "cheaper on the outside"; scalpers wandering about; and the lovably grimy McDonalds—have been replaced by towering behemoths.
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Now, at the other end of the spectrum, a startup out of Spain called Saldum Ventures has raised $56 million (€50 million) to build out Hawkers, a new, digital-first, vertically integrated sunglasses business that wants to take on the big brands of the industry like Ray-Ban, Oakley and more.
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LAS VEGAS — To the usual assortment of tourists and hawkers on the Strip's pulsing fantasy land of fountains, hotels, casinos, clubs and restaurants came thousands of hockey fans on Thursday night, heading to the T-Mobile Arena to see the hometown Golden Knights maybe, just maybe, improbably, win the Stanley Cup.
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Many of the factors contributing to the changes in quality of hawker food — a rise in the use of imported ingredients, for example — would probably still have been factors if hawkers had stayed on the streets, said Cindy Gan, a food blogger in Singapore who grew up there in the 1970s.
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It could also be that the award was mainly handed out to boost the street food scene in Singapore, as it's an important part of the country's tradition that could be lost in amongst all the luxury — and that, out of all the hawkers, Liao Chan Hawker Fan was the most deserving of the award.
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I was also impressed by the way that a familiar modern economy and a traditional barter economy seemed to co-exist—having handed over my money for a cappuccino in exactly the same way as I would in London, I was approached by Bedouin hawkers trying to sell cordless drills and rides on a camel.
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Dodge past the cigarette hawkers and camera crews on the entry road, swing a right before crossing the railway lines, follow a mildly malodorous line of port-a-potties until they peter out, and that's where you'll find Tamer: frying chicken, mixing yoghurt-tahini sauce, and barking orders to his eager cohort of line chefs.
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Street-food peddlers selling authentic, affordable local dishes thrived in Singapore after the World War II, so much so that by the 2900s the number of peddlers, known as "hawkers," had grown to the point that they were obstructing traffic and threatening public health through the refuse they created, according to a report by the National Library Board (NLB).
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Buying land and buildings, hurdling regulations and dealing with the Education Department introduced her to Hong Kong's subculture of corruption, in which the ba wong, or triads, extorted protection money from every hut-dweller and even from street hawkers; in which everyone expected backhanders; and where the police were up to theirkhaki shorts in the narcotics trade.
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My parents became part of a community in Shanghai of some 18,000 European Jews who learned to live in barracks or crowded rooms, used chamber pots, sometimes ate only one hot meal a day from a communal kitchen and walked teeming streets filled with hawkers by day and, in the early hours, trucks picking up corpses.
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It will include eight international retailers, some of which are entering the U.S. for the first time with this location: women's accessories line Parfois, travel items by Campo Marzio, sunglasses brand Hawkers, soap and cosmetics by Compagnie de Provence, embroidered bags by Emma Lomax, spa line L:A Bruket, candles and oil diffusers by Skandinavisk, and notebook line Moleskine.
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Just as the elder Mozart aggressively promoted the talents of his son Wolfgang Amadeus, these costumed hawkers are on a similar promotional mission: Their assignment is to drum up customers for the steady output of ingratiatingly light, short-attention-span classical performances programmed around town especially for tourists drawn to one of the most famous cities in Western music history.
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These tensions came to a head on Lunar New Year's Day in 2016, when several proponents of localism — a movement to preserve the city's unique features, especially against encroachment from Beijing — called for a gathering to support hawkers selling fishballs and other cart foods in the working-class neighborhood of Mong Kok, claiming the vendors were being harassed by the authorities.
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And since it arrived, in addition to his typical duties of keeping hundreds of thousands of tourists, locals, sightseeing bus ticket hawkers, Elmos and Mickey Mice from running over each other, Mr. Dorsey has been a kind of docent, explaining the piece to anyone who seems curious or puzzled about the artwork soaring in front of the American Eagle store.
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There is something dizzying about looking at the images of the neglected and yet still lively details of the city I have spent my life in — the cars and the hawkers on its streets, the traffic policemen, the workers, the women in head scarves crossing bridges enveloped in fog, the old bus stops, the shadows of its trees, the graffiti on its walls.
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Shopping for our wedding in both Delhis, New and Old — the latter worth exploring with the aid of a traditional tour guide if you don't have a personal Magellan — would root us back to our cultural homeland, this cacophonous place of silk hawkers and honking horns and a deal around every corner, where heavy velvet lehengas hang from shop windows like so many skinned chickens.
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Arriving at the scene of Saturday's explosion, what he remembered as a bustling intersection crowded with street hawkers, vegetable sellers, and hotel guests had been transformed into a post-apocalyptic scene: the carbonised bodies of those killed in the explosion were strewn across the street, the Safari Hotel was rubble, and heat from the fire raging in the explosion's aftermath could be felt 100 metres from the scene.
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The snacks pitched together in a blur by hawkers at folding tables and rolling carts by the side of the road; the gravy-soaked stews and sauceless dry curries patiently made from 25 or so vegetables and seasonings, all of them chopped, ground, fried and simmered at home by those keepers of the culinary flame known collectively as the aunties — we've seen interpretations of this food, squeezed from eyedroppers and prepared for their photo shoots with edible flowers.
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