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 Volume 7, Issue 1 (January 2020), Pages: 100-107

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The sustainability of traders’ communities in the late-night bazaar

 Author(s): Noordeyana Tambi 1, *, Rosniza Aznie Che Rose 1, Nor Azlina Abu Bakar 2, Nur Hafizah Yusoff 1, Azlan Abas 1

 Affiliation(s):

 1Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
 2Architecture Department, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2130-1692

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 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2020.01.010

 Abstract:

Bazaars, in general, are deeply sewn within the fabrics of the locals’ souls. Furthermore, these late-night bazaar businesses can be regarded as a community development effort undertaken by non-governmental organizations in collaboration with medium and small entrepreneurs. Organizers of this late-night bazaar act as managers and service providers that provide the location and necessary services to the traders with the permission of local authorities. Originally, the objective of late-night bazaars was to provide an alternative income for the low-income group in urban areas who were burdened by the economic pressure which leads to poverty. However, at the same time, these bazaars become a place that provides space for urban teenagers to do beneficial activities at night. Despite the opposition from various parties who argue that this late-night business disturbs the human biological clock especially at night, the bazaar still operates and is slowly becoming a tourist attraction to experience a different local lifestyle in urban areas at night. 

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 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Community development, Late-night bazaar, Local people, Small scale business, Traders

 Article History: Received 8 May 2019, Received in revised form 1 November 2019, Accepted 12 November 2019

 Acknowledgment:

The author would like to thank the Grants SK-2017-002 for their financial assistance that made publishing this article possible.

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Tambi N, Rose RAC, and Bakar NAA et al. (2020). The sustainability of traders’ communities in the late-night bazaar. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 7(1): 100-107

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