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Merdeka Generation
'Every seed we sow is a seed of hope': TCM physician goes from healing hands to green fingers
While the pioneer leaders were the architects of Singapore, everyday heroes helped build society here. This is another story of our Merdeka Generation, those born in the 1950s who lived and persevered through a tumultuous period.
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Vanessa Liu
Mr Chai Kien Chin never dreamt he would become a farmer.
All he wanted to do more than three decades ago was to earn enough money from selling vegetables so that he could open his own medicinal herbs store.
