Tekka hawker centre stops selling bottled beer

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More people are thronging Tekka Centre - particularly after restrictions were put in place to curb alcohol consumption in Little India's public areas.

Stallholders there have now stopped selling bottled beer to reduce the risk of glass bottles being used as weapons in fights. Only canned beer is available for sale there now.

Still, the no-bottles initiative has not stopped some from bringing their own into the hawker centre. This has caused some stallholders to worry about their business, since they stopped selling bottled beer on Oct 1.

Hawkers whom Channel NewsAsia spoke to said their customers generally prefer bottled beer to canned beer.

Stall owners said they been told that if business is badly affected after three months, they could go back to selling bottled beer, but only on weekdays.