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Check out eight Chinatown artworks featuring samsui women

Curious about samsui women? Let The Straits Times take you on this 90-minute walking tour through Chinatown to find some of the most interesting artworks that depict the pioneering construction worker.

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SINGAPORE – She is the newest samsui woman in town, but she is far from the only one.

The controversial mural of a young samsui woman

with a cigarette on a South Bridge Road shophouse has been all the buzz lately.

Her cigarette can stay

, the Urban Redevelopment Authority and Ministry of Health said in a joint statement on July 10, but they are looking for ways to “mitigate any impact that the mural may have in promoting smoking”.

Check out eight Chinatown artworks featuring samsui women

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