https://www.scmp.com/rss/511497/feed Valerie Ang is a writer from Singapore, associated with The Nutgraf content and communications agency. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com When a patient walked into Wong Lin Ho’s traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) clinic last year with bruises she claimed were sustained during a bad fall, the 32-year-old director of Ong Fujian Chinese Physician Hall suspected something was not right. When Wong asked the patient for details, he found her story inconsistent. It fed his suspicions that she might have been domestically abused. “There is a distinct difference between the types of sprains, bruises and injuries caused by falling,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3173644/singapores-traditional-chinese-medicine-clinics-see-rise-patients-serious?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/article/3173644/singapores-traditional-chinese-medicine-clinics-see-rise-patients-serious?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Apr 2022 00:00:18 +0000 Some Singaporeans used their time spent socially distanced to adopt a pet, pick up a hobby or learn a new skill – while others, like 13-year-old Sin Hai, decided to launch a business venture, inspired by the eye-watering sums that some of the rarest, slowest-growing plant species can now fetch on Facebook and Carousell. A booming online marketplace for rare and costly houseplants has emerged in Singapore since last year, when pandemic-associated restrictions kept many indoors. Large examples of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3160442/singapore-rare-plants-sell-online-us40000-hobbyists-indulge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3160442/singapore-rare-plants-sell-online-us40000-hobbyists-indulge?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:16 +0000