• World's first separation of adult Siamese twins in Singapore

      Iranian twin sisters, Laleh and Ladan Bijani, were the world’s first adult Siamese twins to undergo surgical separation. The 52-hour marathon operation began on 6 July 2003 at Raffles Hospital in Singapore. However, 29-year-old twins, who were born conjoined at ...

    • Raffles Hospital

      Jointly owned by Raffles Medical Group and Pidemco Land, Raffles Hospital was officially opened on 16 March 2002 as the second largest private general hospital in Singapore. The hospital has made news for some of its pioneering surgeries on Siamese twins.

    • Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery (Siong Lim Temple)

      Lian Shan Shuang Lin Monastery (莲山双林寺, which means “Twin Grove of the Lotus Mountain Temple”), or Shuang Lin Monastery for short, is a Buddhist monastery located in Toa Payoh. The name of the monastery refers to the twin groves of sala trees located at the Bodhgaya ...

    • Clyde Terrace Market

      Once the largest market in Singapore, Clyde Terrace Market was a cluster of huts and sheds at Kampong Glam in the 1860s. It was completely revamped in the early 1870s into a building mostly of ironwork. It was expanded over the years to meet the demands of a growing ...

       

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