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MANGUPURA - Existence of traditional markets is increasingly marginalized by the massive proliferation of modern shops.
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Not only the traders of basic necessities, such impact have also been felt by traders of souvenir or gift shop in traditional art markets. In Kuta and Legian, for example, revenues of traders had fallen sharply due to the growth of modern souvenir markets in the area. To Bali Post, Mrs. Made, one of the traders in Kuta Art Market, revealed if the average income in those markets had fallen sharply following the rise of emerging modern souvenir markets. “Our income diminishes approximately 50 percent or even more due to the influence of the modern souvenir markets,” she said. The most obvious impact was decline in consumer of domestic tourists. Many domestic tourists, especially those traveling in groups, IBP/Doc were diverted by travel agents to A woman buying flower in on of traders in traditional market. Existence of traditional mar- shop in the souvenir markets. kets is increasingly marginalized by the massive proliferation of modern shops. Continued on page 6
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BANGKOK — Floodwaters are pressing toward Bangkok on several fronts as soldiers and residents pile sandbags, and officials sound a new alarm for neighborhoods east of the capital near the international airport. The Royal Irrigation Department on Tuesday advised residents in a flood plain east of Bangkok near Suvarnabhumi Airport to build sand-bag walls and move valuables to upper floors because water levels there were rapidly rising. A department spokesman stressed that the airport itself was not threatened because it is well protected. Authorities have been busy bolstering flood defenses along the northern perimeter of Bangkok in recent days. Bangkok’s other airport, north of Bangkok, is in another area where floods threaten, but is also believed safe for now.
A woman and a girl sit in a rickshaw as it is pushed through floodwaters in Bang Bua Thon, in Nonthaburi province, suburban Bangkok, on October 18, 2011. The Thai premier said reconstruction from massive floods swamping vast swathes of the country is expected to cost the government over 3.3 billion USD -- a fifth more than previously estimated. AFP PHOTO / Nicolas ASFOURI