Unfortunately, at some places they just seem to be too lazy to turn them off, Cairo comes to my mind.
See this on regular visits to Hanoi.
Never cross a lit stop bar no matter what the reason. Do it, and imagine trying to explain the consequences to the courts, authority, families, or the jury in the heavens.
If there's some malfunction of the light system, the airport man in the little truck can run over and pull the plug on the damb things.
Review....
STOP BARS. 5.2 PANS-ATM (Doc 4444) states “7.14.7 Stop bars shall be switched on to indicate that all traffic shall stop and switched off to indicate that traffic may proceed.” As such, a controller should never issue a clearance to cross a stop bar without first switching off the stop bar. The only exception to this should be when contingency measures are required due to unserviceability. An example of a contingency measure is the use of a follow-me vehicle.