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BIODATA
image from pmo.gov.sg
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National Environment Agency workers barricading Sungei Road Market when it closed on July 10, 2017:
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(Images courtesy of Lawrence Chong)
Parliament: Five Sungei Road rag-and-bone men likely to move to hawker centres in city area (Apr 2017)
Excerpt:
"Nominated MP Kok Heng Leun asked how Sungei Road vendors have been helped, with the hawking zone due to be closed 'to facilitate future residential development use'.
In response, Mr Masagos said the country’s needs must be taken into account. The authorities also have 'to be fair to the many, many other hawkers who have moved on' to hawker centres and markets.
He added: 'The time has come and we have engaged enough. To meet them again is to almost promise that we will change our stance and that redevelopment will not start... There are alternatives. But should we put up another site like this which is deemed to be like Sungei Road but not at Sungei Road? I don’t think this is something we want to dwell (on) further.'"
(Source: The Straits Times)
Parliament: Five Sungei Road rag-and-bone men likely to move to hawker centres in city area (Apr 2017)
Excerpt:
"Nominated MP Kok Heng Leun asked how Sungei Road vendors have been helped, with the hawking zone due to be closed 'to facilitate future residential development use'.
In response, Mr Masagos said the country’s needs must be taken into account. The authorities also have 'to be fair to the many, many other hawkers who have moved on' to hawker centres and markets.
He added: 'The time has come and we have engaged enough. To meet them again is to almost promise that we will change our stance and that redevelopment will not start... There are alternatives. But should we put up another site like this which is deemed to be like Sungei Road but not at Sungei Road? I don’t think this is something we want to dwell (on) further.'"
(Source: The Straits Times)