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Originally Posted by mobi
BAD NEWS...
i think some of the senior members would already know that the joints in k town along duong GP have closed shop already. heard that the reason being is that the cong an have been raiding the place too frequently and also asking for too much protection money. (any senior members can clarify?)
seems like there are only 2 shops left operating along duong TL and the price have increase to 800k due to paying more protection money.
this is really bad news for members staying in hcmc.  |
You heard wrong.
The reason according to my sources is that many residents in the area have been complaining about the public disturbance as a result of these salons being there (noise from salon girls hanging out on the streets during and after work late into the night with their gang-related male friends, drunkenness, which in turn leads to complications/fights between them and the salon girls' predominantly foreign salon customers, etc. etc.).
The complaints have apparently made their way up to Hanoi (the entire area is on military land whose Central Command is obviously in Hanoi), this led to Cong An HQ in Hanoi issuing a directive down to HCMC and Tan Binh District Authorities that all salons in that area in Q Tan Binh have to close down. Because the directive came from Hanoi, local authorities have their hands tied and the problem cannot be solved through the usual padded handshakes.
Salons were essentially given a month's notice and the directive was put into force following the Labour Day long weekend, essentially with effect from 2 May 2013.
However, this being Vietnam, in spite of the directive there are slightly more than three salons still operating in the area, of which 1 has simply relocated to another street in the same area. The rest have all relocated to another area.
The prices have remained the same. There are no price increases due to this incident, if they tell you so they are lying. It's still 500k + 200k = 700k at the few salons still operating.