For the first seven years of his life, Dr Tan Lai Yong was not allowed to leave the one-room rental flat he shared with six older siblings and his parents. It was for his own safety, his stay-at-home mother decided. Their area around Kallang Airport was rife with dangerous gangs in the 1960s. “My dream … Continue reading Award-winning medical missionary-turned-lecturer Dr Tan Lai Yong once dreamed of being a grass cutter