Competition for space at Thieves' Market continues

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HE ATTEMPTED to beat a knee problem and the morning rush for spots at the Sungei Road Free Hawking Zone by parking his trolley laden with his wares in his desired spot after midnight.

However, when Mr Chan Sye Hoong, 73, returned just after noon yesterday, he had been displaced by a group of men who claimed to have been hawking at that spot for years.

Even though he refused to give and even got into a shouting match with one of the men (below), Mr Chan failed to move the group and reclaim his reserved spot.

With the first-come-first-serve system implemented by the National Environment Agency following a cull in space on Monday, the competition for spots at Sungei Road continues on.

 

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Vendor arrested as he jostles for space

TENSIONS had been rising over the past three days.

The mad rush for spots at the Sungei Road Free Hawking Zone on Monday turned into shouting matches on Tuesday.

Yesterday, another altercation led to one regular - electronics goods vendor Tong Mun Cheong (pictured above) - calling the police.

However, Mr Tong himself ended up being arrested after he yelled at the officers who had arrived on the scene and threatened to beat them up.

More in The New Paper today (July 28).