'Quieter than a library': Business drying up at wet markets in Bukit Panjang, Jurong West

Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market, completed in 2015, is the first wet market under the National Environment Agency to be built in 30 years. ST PHOTO: KELVIN CHNG
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SINGAPORE - Dotted with food stalls, the ground floor of Bukit Panjang Hawker Centre and Market is buzzing with the breakfast crowd on a weekday morning.

But at the wet market on the floor above, the scene is quite the opposite.

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