HCMC to shut all sidewalk parking lots pending evaluation

In his resignation letter, Doan Ngoc Hai said his campaign collided with businesses that had million-dollar interests on the sidewalks.

Cars and eateries are back two months after the man spearheading the cleanup campaign was asked to step aside.

The disgruntled man says he was resentful of a cleanup campaign that exacted a heavy toll on his fellow street vendors.

Business has been booming at the first two zones, which were set up following the city's sidewalk purge.

Captain Sidewalk has garnered widespread support for his no nonsense cleanup campaign, but a city leader has called it 'inhumane'.

The city's chairman thinks a more subtle approach is necessary rather than kicking poor vendors off the sidewalks.

District 1 has set up a new task force whose action is contingent on complaints, essentially undercutting Captain Sidewalk's authority.

‘I know what I did was wrong but the officer was so rude,’ said one vendor whose fish basin was kicked off the sidewalk.

Doan Ngoc Hai asked drivers in the city to follow the rules or go and live in U Minh, a poor rural community 250 miles away.

Doan Ngoc Hai showed a rare moment of leniency on Thursday and simply issued a warning to the driver of a diplomatic car.

Followed home and threatened with a grisly end, Doan Ngoc Hai isn't ready to give up his year-long campaign just yet. 

It was just a matter of time before someone snapped over the radical cleanup campaign in District 1.

'I want to make an example of my family by punishing them first.'