ChinatownEvictions

08 JUNE 2016 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: What's left of a small street market for fruit and produce at the intersection of Phlap Phla Chai and Chareon Krung Streets in Bangkok's Chinatown neighborhood. The Bangkok Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) system, Bangkok's subway, is being expanded through Chinatown and a station is under construction at the intersection. The small produce market at the intersection will have to move and several of the businesses near the intersection have been evicted to make way for the construction. Bangkok's Chinatown, considered by some to be one of the best preserved Chinatown districts in the world, is changing. Many of the old shophouses are being demolished and replaced by malls and condominium developments. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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08 JUNE 2016 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: What's left of a small street market for fruit and produce at the intersection of Phlap Phla Chai and Chareon Krung Streets in Bangkok's Chinatown neighborhood. The Bangkok Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) system, Bangkok's subway, is being expanded through Chinatown and a station is under construction at the intersection. The small produce market at the intersection will have to move and several of the businesses near the intersection have been evicted to make way for the construction. Bangkok's Chinatown, considered by some to be one of the best preserved Chinatown districts in the world, is changing. Many of the old shophouses are being demolished and replaced by malls and condominium developments. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ