Orchard Towers beauty salons exploiting regulation loophole to run vice operations

Waiting for business at around lunch time on Aug 25, 2022. These two women work at one of many beauty spas and salons found at Orchard Towers. ST PHOTO: ZAIHAN MOHAMED YUSOF
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SINGAPORE - Orchard Towers, a building once famous for its nightclubs and pubs, now has more beauty salons than watering holes.

But it is all cosmetic. Inside the units - each only about 9 sq m big - the so-called therapists offer sex and little else.

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