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You have probably walked past an Eu Yan Sang shop, and many of us think of it as a Singapore brand. But it was born in Gopeng, near Ipoh, in 1879, when Eu Kong opened a small medicine shop for tin miners and called it "Yan Sang": caring for mankind. His son Eu Tong Sen went to school in Ipoh, became the "King of Tin", and opened a medicine shop beside every mine. Here is how one Gopeng shop became a name across Asia, including the uncomfortable chapters.

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