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Bangkok, Thailand, Fair a Hit with Craft Fans.
Byline: Woranuj Maneerungsee
Dec. 6--Shop owners selling wooden furniture and home fittings in Soi Pracha Narue Mit in Bang Sue district, Bangkok, are working around the clock to prepare for the community's annual Thanon Saimai (Wooden Street) fair to be held on Jan 25-26.
One of their biggest challenges is to manage the traffic snarls that have plagued previous fairs and given numerous headaches to organisers.
Since the fair was first held in 1999, tens of thousands of Thai and foreign visitors have flocked to the 1,100-metre Soi Pracha Narue Mit or Soi Pracha Rat 24, the heart of the fair. The area has also been home to wooden furniture, crafts and home fittings in Bangkok for almost half a century.
Visitors are drawn to the fair's grand annual sale, with discounts of up to 50 percent from nearly 300 shops along the soi -- from small shophouses selling miscellaneous fittings to large retail stores selling luxury Louis XIV-style furniture.
To create the atmosphere of a fun fair, owners will decorate their shops with wood to showcase their products. They also plan other activities such as a wood-carving contest, prize draws and traditional Thai dance.
While the fair promises a lot of fun to visitors, the story behind it is a rather sad one of yet another community struggling to survive after the financial crisis hit home in 1997.
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