STREET vendors in Bangkok's Tha Chang-Tha Phrachan area are lamenting that the city's "landscape improvement" operation, which prohibited all footpath stalls from Monday onwards, would "kill the area's charm and identity".

Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) officials and workers yesterday began re-regulating the footpath along Maharaj Road from Tha Chang to Tha Phrachan. The next target for such "landscape improvement", possibly in January, will be Bang Lamphu, fol