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Orchard Towers: From family mall to sleaze and brawls

A family-oriented mall in its early days, it is now notorious for vice activities

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Calvin Yang

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By day, workers throng the small offices on the upper floors of dingy Orchard Towers, with patrons occasionally streaming in for cheap Thai food.
But, after dark, the place is transformed, buzzing with sex workers and drunks.
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