Food prices increase due to high demand Dec 19, 2007
At Grogol wet market, the prices of some vegetables as well as meats have also increased. Latif M, a butcher at the market, said that the prices went up due to the high demand for cow and goat meat before the Day of Sacrifice. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Winter among soybean growers visiting Far East Dec 8, 2007
The slides showed a Chinese restaurant (where patrons pick out the fish they want to eat, and are then served as little as 20 minutes later) and a "wet market," where the people buy their fish daily. The Americans also took a five-hour bus trip into the interior, where they toured some operations where fish are raised in ponds. (Carmi Times, IL)
Wet market finale Nov 18, 2007
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Instant makeovers Nov 18, 2007
Sharon Chung of Chop Soon Long, which is housed within the Chow Kit Road wet market, stresses that buying good quality plastic tablecloths is a worthwhile investment ... So, do head for the inner building of the wet market using the entrance beside the police beat and this is the third shop after the row of shops selling plastic ware. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
SMS Senders Pick For Best Chee Cheong Fun Nov 4, 2007
Delicious n cheap Keong curry chee cheong fun inside Pudu Jln Pasar wet market. RM2 reasonable portion. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Man stabbed to death in Kuantan Oct 26, 2007
KUANTAN: A man died after he was stabbed and assaulted by a group of five people while leaving a restaurant near a wet market here Friday morning. Chin Chun Ong, 24, who was stabbed on the left armpit, died while on the way to the Tengku Ampuan Afzan Hospital (HTAA). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Vendors return to find kiosks gone Oct 18, 2007
"A day before Idul Fitri business was still running as usual here. There was no sign that the Cikokol wet market would be bulldozed immediately after Idul Fitri," said a fruit vendor, Hargan, 40, who was shocked to find the ruins of his kiosk. Memed and Hargan are just two of the some 1,300 traders who lost the merchandise they had left in their kiosks, which were demolished Monday. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Massive fire guts Ang Mo Kio wet market, hawker centre Oct 17, 2007
It turned out that a big fire had broken out one that would raze the entire wet market and food centre at Block 628A, Ang Mo Kio St 61. Witnesses said that the fire started at about 9pm. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
RM92,500 worth of compounds issued to wholesalers, traders Oct 16, 2007
On Tuesday, ministry officials inspected prices at several wet markets to ensure that post-Hari Raya prices did not escalate above the ceiling price. Enforcement officer R. Sankaran who led the Jalan Othman wet market inspection, said they were pleased that vegetables and chicken were being sold below the ceiling price. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Traditional markets offer what supermarkets can't Oct 16, 2007
Rita, in her 50s, continues to choose the wet market because it offers customer service which she doesn't find with the modern retailers that have mushroomed in the city over the past decade. "It is the sense of intimacy I feel every time I go shopping in the traditional market, "The kind of feeling you wouldn't get while shopping at a hypermarket or any other modern retailer. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Naning Adiwoso: Dreaming of clean toilets in Indonesia Oct 11, 2007
"I used a toilet in Beringharjo market in Yogyakarta. It was surprisingly clean, considering it was in the middle of a packed wet market. It was not smelly and you could get fresh water from the tap," she said, adding that in some toilets the only water that could be used for washing was stagnant or had developed an odor from sitting in the bucket for too long.. Naning said that although she was campaigning for Western-type toilets she had nothing against squat toilets: "Using squat toilets is... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Another round of bird flu as `opor ayam' in sight Oct 11, 2007
At our traditional markets, or wet markets, sick or not, people are buying up chickens as fast as they can ... Now many people prefer to buy live chickens, to be slaughtered at home or at the wet market, so they know they aren't getting any formaldehyde with their chicken ... Unlike backyard poultry, which have become a focus in the country's battle to prevent the spread of bird flu, wet markets remain largely ignored and untouched. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia)
GCH Retail to open three new outlets by year-end Sep 12, 2007
Puchong is a fast-growing area and we are pleased to serve the residents here with Giants trademark concept of wet market shopping in a clean, attractive and vibrant shopping environment, he added. The occasion also witnessed the graduation of 60 trainees in retailing under the Train and Work programme, conducted by Giant in partnership with the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Hong Kong Piggeries Head for China as City Says Hogs and Homes Don't Mix Aug 16, 2007
The meat dangles, unrefrigerated, from hooks in street stalls and so-called wet markets ... I go to the wet market or supermarket for fresh vegetables, fish and pork four days a week after work,'' said Mandy Tsui, 24, a researcher who cooks at home. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
Bernies branching out Aug 11, 2007
On her days off, she takes her 79-year-old mum to the wet market because shes petrified shell fall down. . (The Star Online, Malaysia)
U.S. officials talk food safety in China Jul 31, 2007
A Chinese vendor sells shrimps and prawns at a wet market in Beijing. President Bush is sending top aides to review the safety of imports into the USA amid public outrage over a series of health scares centered on Chinese goods including toxic seafood, virus-plagued pigs, lethal pet food and chemical-laden toothpaste. (USA Today -- News)
Chicken price war between supermarts hurting smaller stallholders Jul 27, 2007
Consumers are naturally not complaining, but the huge reduction in prices has hurt stallholders at wet markets ... With such rock-bottom prices, consumers are ignoring the stalls at the wet markets, where a whole chicken, weighing 1 to 1 ... Chen Kim Soon, a chicken seller at a wet market, said: "Currently, our business has decreased by about 10 to 20 percent. If the business gets worse and we suffer losses, I may consider giving up my stall.". (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Chicken Price War Jul 27, 2007
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Mixed housing project for Pusat Subang Utama Jul 21, 2007
95 acres, the project boasts five blocks of shop and apartment complexes, a four-storey car park with a wet market on the ground floor, and a sewerage treatment plant. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Selangor government to modernise and hasten development in the Pekan Subang area. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Finding a voiceHow protesters are shaping Hong Kong's democracy Jun 26, 2007
Around the corner from the Tai Yuen Street stallholders, Wanchai's wet market begins and the stallholders compete with one another to sell vegetables, meat and fish at rock-bottom prices. "When rents are high and income is low, what time do I have to dedicate to thinking or doing anything about the voting system?" said vegetable vendor Wu Sau Ling. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Food operators still using banned cancer-causing dye May 30, 2007
We discovered traces of the dye in five samples of belacan bought from a famous wet market in Kuala Lumpur and in eight samples of Mi Ku, Siew Ku and Huat Kuih bought from several wet markets in Penang, he said, adding that the tests were conducted in the past two months. I am shocked that these errant traders and food manufacturers are getting away with it so easily. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Fruitful venture for Jia Fu May 7, 2007
He said the fruits were sold at the farm and sometimes he would sell to the wet market and fruit stalls when there was a surplus. On future plans, he said: We plan to lease a 23-acre land at an oil palm estate in Broga, which is 3km away from Happy Fruitland, within two or three years. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Penangs best-kept secret revealed May 6, 2007
It does not help that there is a small wet market nearby. Ah Wai Kor is a Penangite. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Complex to be ready in August May 3, 2007
The wet market on the ground floor will comprise 112 stalls while the dry market upstairs will have 62 lots. This month, we will be processing new licence applications and interviewing those interested in taking up stalls at the complex, he said, adding that the existing pasar tani in Jalan Pondok Upeh nearby would also be relocated to the complex grounds. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Its no joke in Ijok Apr 25, 2007
At Pekan Ijok, where the wet market is located, the road is often jammed these days as it has become the favourite area for the candidates and campaigners to meet voters. Parti Keadilan Rakyat has set up a table with laptops to help voters check the voting stations, where they will cast their votes this Saturday while just a few steps away, Barisan Nasional parties have their operation centres. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
At wet markets, poor planning makes composting projects a waste of time Apr 11, 2007
In the Senen wet market, a composting machine which has been installed for several months only operates weekly, local vendors said ... A different example of how composting could work can be found in three wet markets in North Jakarta. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Wet markets can help community bonding: HDB residents Apr 8, 2007
Build more wet markets if you want better community bonding: residents in the eastern part of Singapore made this call at a feedback session in Tampines on Saturday ... About half of the people at the Forum called for the return of wet markets ... Bernard, Student, says: "I love the wet market. It creates a sense of neighbourliness that the government wants to cultivate amongst the young and the old.". (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
* Realtor says Taipei boom has limits Apr 7, 2007
Close to the Yongchun MRT station, the trendy Xinyi district and a wet market, Futai complex remains cheaper than private projects in the neighborhood, which can sell for up to NT$700,000 per ping. In addition, having reputable schools nearby also contributes to the attractiveness of these public housing complexes, Wu said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
* The revenge of the fishes Apr 3, 2007
Filipino fish vendors wait for customers at the Villa Arevalo public market, the same wet market that sold a Barracuda fish that sickened 32 people last August in Iloilo city in central Philippines. PHOTO: AP. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Hypermarkets threat to wet market? Mar 28, 2007
The Jakarta Post - Hypermarkets threat to wet market ... Hypermarkets threat to wet market ... Hypermarkets seem to be growing rapidly, at the expense of traditional wet markets. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Business)
Health alert over Tamiflu, bird flu spreads in Myanmar Mar 21, 2007
The grandmother of the nine-month-old girl had taken her to a neighbourhood wet market every day in the week before she fell ill, and a senior health official said on Tuesday the baby had probably contracted the H9N2 virus during these visits. "The only gap in our defence against bird flu is the wet market. This shows humans can get infected in such a setting. Something must be done to the poultry stalls in our markets," Lo Wing-lok, an infectious disease expert, said. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Months-old girl sick with H9N2 Mar 21, 2007
Thomas Tsang Ho-fai, controller at the center, said it is believed the girl caught the virus at a wet market at King Lam Shopping Centre in Tseung Kwan O after visiting the market with her mother almost every day during the week before she was taken ill ... Infectious disease expert Lo Wing- lok said all wet markets are likely to harbor the H9N2 virus, and children below 12 years of age should avoid visiting markets with live poultry because they have lower immunity than adults. (The Standard)
Eat, cook and be merry Mar 20, 2007
and looking at fresh tuna at a wet market in Japan. All my family members are foodies. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Commemorating 21 years of art at Central Market Mar 16, 2007
Central Market has been home to quite a few Malaysian artists since it was converted from a wet market into a cultural centre in 1986. Tourists and locals arriving at Central Market have often been captivated by the artists as they transform a piece of blank canvas into vivid life. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Melaka Sentral under council management Mar 1, 2007
The company claimed it had used part of the rental to carry out renovation work on the wet market ... Zaini, speaking to reporters after chairing the council meeting on Tuesday, said the council would look into the parking lot at the wet market as it also belonged to the council ... Melaka Sentral Sdn Bhd had been given a five-year contract to manage the bus terminal, which was opened in May 2004, and wet market, since it was relocated from Jalan Tun Ali to the existing location in 2. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Shopping -- the name of the game for Latifa, and Latif Feb 20, 2007
Though there are twice as many women visiting the pasar (wet market), one in five men are out there grocery shopping as well. Though they may be following instructions, 19 percent of grocery buyers are indeed men. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Business)
* Chinese undeterred by wildlife bans Feb 14, 2007
The illegal trade in wild animals and plants is booming in China, and Shenzhen wet markets are a prime source of forbidden foods ... Sister Ho, at a wet market in Shenzhen ... At Shenzhen's wet market, more unidentifiable furry animals were seen locked in cages but their sellers either refused to say what they were or simply ignored a visitor's questions. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Weights & Measures Office increases checks on vendors Feb 10, 2007
Officers from SPRING Singapore's Weights and Measures Office, posing as customers, have been conducting spot checks on stall holders in Tiong Bahru Wet Market to nab errant vendors who do not give customers what they are paying for. They check that weighing scales are accurate. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
Malaysia going all out to attract tourists Feb 8, 2007
KUALA LUMPUR: This multiracial nation's tourism tagline is "Malaysia Truly Asia,'' and true to its slogan, it is home to a unique potpourri of Asian cultures - Malay, Chinese, Indian - along with many indigenous groups on Borneo island. Malaysia is one of the most pleasant, hassle-free countries to visit in Southeast Asia. Aside from its gleaming 21st century glass towers, it boasts some of the most superb beaches, mountains and national parks in the region. Malaysia is also launching its... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Malaysia launches tourism campaign Feb 7, 2007
Also worth visiting is the Central Market, a pre-war building that was the main wet market for the city, and has now been transformed into an arts and cultural center. The limestone temple Batu Caves, located 9 miles north of the city, have a 328-foot-high ceiling and feature ornate Hindu shrines, including a 141-foot-tall gold-painted statue of a Hindu deity. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Fight broke out between three butchers early Saturday morning Feb 4, 2007
The incident happened at a wet market at Block 209 of Hougang Street 21. Police received the call at 5. (Channel NewsAsia, Singapore)
ROUNDUP: Bombs Explode In Bangkok On New Year's Eve, 25 Injured Jan 1, 2007
Bombs went off early evening about 6 p.m. (1100 GMT) at busy Victory Monument, near the popular Weekend Market, at the sprawling Klong Toey wet market, a police traffic box at Sukhumwit Soi 62, behind the Seacon Square shopping mall in Eastern Bangkok and at a Tesco supermarket. Two bombs went off at Victory Monument, a busy bus stop in the capital, injuring 17 people, one of whom was listed in serious condition. (Playfuls.com)
Getting ready for another Hari Raya Dec 28, 2006
Although it does not cause a shopping frenzy like at the end of Ramadan, the Feast of Sacrifice still manages to get traders at wet markets busy attending to the demand for foodstuff in preparation for the festival. Business goes on as usual but we will open until late on the day before Hari Raya Haji, said Saiful Suhri Abdul Halil, a chicken seller at the Taman Tun Dr Ismail (TTDI) wet market ... Ramachandran, who has been selling vegetables for more than 40 years (since the days when Central... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Trip to China broadens student’s knowledge of beef industry, world trade, agriculture Nov 22, 2006
Most of China s meat 80 percent to 90 percent reaches the consumer on a wet market basis where nothing is ever inspected or refrigerated. Everything is just slaughtered in someone s backyard and then put out on the street and sold, and they really prefer that, Knock said. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
At Home in Shanghai: Nov 16, 2006
A woman in her blue flannel jammies and black kitten heels rushed from the little wet market back to her second-floor walk-up with a bag of tomatoes and another of greens. I was watching several workers up on bamboo ladders applying plaster-facing to a beautiful old lane house they were renovating when a middle-aged woman on a bike, looking kind of official with her notebook of receipts, stopped next to me. (Slate)
A new look awaits Bangsar Nov 2, 2006
Shopping complexes, such as the new Bangsar Village 2, need to beef up on its safety features for pedestrians, senior citizens and the disabled, she said, adding that residents also requested a new location for the filthy Lucky Garden wet market ... wet market traders have to maintain cleanliness or they have to go ... If the hawkers and wet market traders do not maintain cleanliness, then they have to go, irrespective of how convenient their location is to residents, he said. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
SS15 wet market to open next month Oct 27, 2006
THE SS15 wet market in Subang Jaya is expected to open next month ... Subang Jaya Municipal Council (MPSJ) president Adnan Md Ikhsan said the wet market was ready. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Proposal to set up tourist police unit in Kelantan Oct 20, 2006
Lijah said the initial zones selected for patrols are at the Siti Khatijah wet market here, Rantau Panjang and Tumpat. More News. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Classic example of giving new life to old building Sep 25, 2006
Looking at what it is today - a colourful and enigmatic building in the heart of Kuala Lumpur - very few would realise that its history dates back to 1888 when the site used to be an open wet market. To accommodate the growing number of vendors, a permanent structure was built a few years later and by the late 1930s, Central Market was further improvised to have the present facade and became Kuala Lumpurs de-facto wet market ... The Central Market continued to be the city's old wet market until... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Najib believes Kelantan voters ready for change Aug 29, 2006
Najib told the state that if it does not begin work on a flyover over the KTM railway tracks in the town centre and on a new wet market by the end of this year, the Federal Government would take over the two projects. In Kuantan, Najib said the Government would use the Barisan Nasional approach to resolve any issues or differences that might arise among component parties. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Assemblyman wants rubbish disposed properly at Muar market Aug 25, 2006
We have a very big and spacious wet market with more than 220 traders selling vegetables, fruits, chicken, fish, meat and even provision goods. However, the market is dirty, slippery and smelly, especially at the chicken and fish stalls. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Fresh seafood's the order of the day Aug 24, 2006
" Cured (dubbed "stinky") tofu and other vegetables, including winter melon, are around but less so, our hosts said, proud of their newfound affluence. As it is all over China, the middle class is burgeoning, wealth is rising and the austere lifestyle of the '50s to the '80s left behind. I went on to a wet market. It was afternoon, and while some greengrocers, meat and dry goods vendors' stalls were shut down, the fish and shellfish section was hopping, every vendor in place to sell ingredients... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Siti's akad nikah captures much attention Aug 22, 2006
Wherever television sets were switched on, people stopped to watch the akad nikah of Malaysias pop princess and her Datuk K. They included shoppers at the Tanjung Rambutan wet market and those at the magistrates court here. Even a group of cleaners, busy making sure that the lobby of the Ipoh City Council was spotlessly clean, stopped in their tracks when a glamorous Siti, dressed in her stunning all-white kebaya, appeared on the large plasma television screen there. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Guidebook on Melaka Sentral launched Aug 21, 2006
MALACCA: An information guide book on Melaka Sentral, which houses a bus terminal, bazaar, food court and wet market, was laun-ched by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam last Tuesday. He also launched the website www. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Are we nicer to dogs than the Chinese? Aug 10, 2006
As my knowledgeable traveler friends tell me (and many food shows and travel documentaries indicate), there is nothing else on this planet quite like a Chinese "wet market" for experiencing the full, glistening, slimy array of the animal kingdom, all manner of parts and organs and skins and droppings and other ghastly unmentionables -- not to mention insects and sea creatures and freakishly colored squishy things few people seem to be able to clearly identify -- that can be eaten by humans. They... (San Francisco Chronicle)
It all boils down to enforcement Aug 7, 2006
Section 17 residents living near the Jalan 17/27 wet market have complained of rats in the area, which are breeding as a result of rubbish disposed by the irresesponsible traders and nearby restaurant operators, as some of the rubbish inevitably ends up in the drains nearby ... Irresponsible rubbish dumping has led to rats breeding near the Section 17 wet market. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Sense of purpose, care and drive to excel Jul 30, 2006
Al Pacino plays Lowell Bergman, an investigative reporter and ex-producer of CBS' 60 Minutes", who arranged an interview with a Dr. Jeffrey Wigand (played by Russel Crowe). Dr. Wigand was fired from his position as the vice president of research at Brown amson, one of the Big Seven tobacco companies in the world, because the company was not willing to pull their products that according to Dr. Wigand contained a substance that endangered customers' health. The film dramatized how CBS News, under... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Bird Flu Death Pushes Indonesia Toll to No. 1 Jul 22, 2006
The man was probably infected by poultry around his home or the wet market where he worked at a food stall, the organization said. The strain of bird flu known as H5N1 is still primarily an animal disease. (Q13.com, WA)
Indonesia bird flu deaths reach new world high of 43 Jul 21, 2006
Another potential source of infection was a local wet market, which he regularly visited during the course of his work as the owner of a food stall, WHO websites said. Joko said the confirmation came late Wednesday evening but could only be announced Thursday. (Jakarta Post)
Media Game Theory Jun 21, 2006
He charges me 80 baht ($2) for a lift to Thanin Wet Market. Twenty-five minutes later, having been ejected into the heart of the market in the noonday heat, I realize that I m lost. (San Antonio Current, TX)
China Struggling with Public Health Jun 18, 2006
Officials say he may have contracted the virus through eating a chicken purchased at a wet market near his home two weeks ago. Wet markets are traditionally popular among Chinese for their daily food purchases. (OhmyNews International)
Shenzhen bird flu case prompts poultry ban Jun 16, 2006
He said the preliminary assessment is that the patient paid a number of visits to a wet market which also sells live chickens. "Therefore, we consider that it is necessary to suspend live chicken imports for the sake of safety and also to give time to the relevant authorities to conduct a full investigation," Chow said. (The Standard)
New China case suggests H5N1 now more infectious-HK Jun 16, 2006
He visited a wet market where live poultry was sold and ate a chicken before he fell ill, but he is not known to have had any other close contact with poultry. He is the 19th person in China to be infected, 12 of whom have died. (AlertNet)
China investigates suspected bird flu case as Hong Kong goes on alert... Jun 15, 2006
Xinhua reported that Jiang may have contracted the virus after his wife had bought a chicken from a wet market two weeks earlier and served it for dinner to him and four other family members. The other relatives had not shown any signs of illness, the agency said, adding that they were under observation. (The Drudge Report)
China reports avian flu case near Hong Kong Jun 15, 2006
In contrast, a Bloomberg report today said the man himself may have visited a local wet market. Shenzhen is about 40 minutes by rail from Hong Kong, the Bloomberg report said, and thousands commute between the cities each day or visit Shenzhen to shop. (CIDRAP)
