Woman annoyed husband solicited on 2nd floor of Tanjong Pagar Plaza, home to some 25 massage & beauty parlours

Some residents and business owners are annoyed.

Shops started after pandemic

Several shop owners told Shin Min that shops engaged in beauty or massage services increased significantly following the pandemic.

These shops, it was noted, will undergo a change of ownership after operating for a short time.

Opened till early hours of morning

A female shop owner said some of the shops on the second floor remained open until the early hours of the morning.

According to Shin Min, foreign women, believed to be from China and Vietnam, were suspected of living in some of the shops on the second floor and allegedly provided sexual services.



 

Due to poor soundproofing, noise from within can often be heard outside, it was reported.

The shop owner said: "Some even openly solicit customers outside the shop during the day. They're incredibly brazen."

Legitimate businesses affected

A Chinese medicine hall owner, who has been in business for over 20 years, blamed the black sheep in the plaza for affecting legitimate businesses.

"My customers say some shops have their doors locked tightly, making it impossible to see what's going on inside, which is very suspicious," she said.

She added: "Over time, the public has lost the ability to distinguish legitimate shops from illicit ones, and has simply stopped visiting."

Once, a prospective customer entered her shop, but asked if illicit services were provided.

That made her angry.

Woman's husband solicited

A resident, who lives above the plaza, said her husband was once solicited by women there.

The woman, who witnessed what happened, said she was walking a few metres behind her husband on the second floor of the plaza when she saw several women soliciting customers.

They apparently reached out to grab her husband's hand, the woman claimed, which annoyed her.

She said, "There are hundreds of residents upstairs. Who would want a store like this downstairs? Furthermore, there's a kindergarten and a tuition centre here with children frequently visiting. It's a truly detrimental influence."

Tenant mix due to sale of shops in 1990s

Foo explained in his post that the retail mix in the plaza stemmed from the sale of a "significant number of shops" with about 80-year leases in the plaza by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) in the 1990s.

As a result, "HDB has limited regulatory levers over these shops", Foo wrote.

He added that, given the current relatively low footfall in the plaza, "only a small range of businesses" can afford to pay higher rent – specifically, massage establishments and beauty salons.

Police raids on vice activities see action taken against the masseurs and business owners if they are complicit, "but the shop owners typically are not implicated as they are much less likely to be complicit", Foo wrote.

He added: "The shop owners may then find new business owners of similar trade to let their shops to."

Given this arrangement, it is not "so straightforward to address the issue", Foo wrote.

However, he also revealed that he has met with several stakeholders from the police, HDB, the TPP Traders Association and town council to discuss the strategy on how to refresh the retail mix.

Opened till early hours of morning

A female shop owner said some of the shops on the second floor remained open until the early hours of the morning.

According to Shin Min, foreign women, believed to be from China and Vietnam, were suspected of living in some of the shops on the second floor and allegedly provided sexual services.



 

Due to poor soundproofing, noise from within can often be heard outside, it was reported.

The shop owner said: "Some even openly solicit customers outside the shop during the day. They're incredibly brazen."

Legitimate businesses affected

A Chinese medicine hall owner, who has been in business for over 20 years, blamed the black sheep in the plaza for affecting legitimate businesses.

"My customers say some shops have their doors locked tightly, making it impossible to see what's going on inside, which is very suspicious," she said.

She added: "Over time, the public has lost the ability to distinguish legitimate shops from illicit ones, and has simply stopped visiting."


 

Once, a prospective customer entered her shop, but asked if illicit services were provided.

That made her angry.

Woman's husband solicited

A resident, who lives above the plaza, said her husband was once solicited by women there.

The woman, who witnessed what happened, said she was walking a few metres behind her husband on the second floor of the plaza when she saw several women soliciting customers.

They apparently reached out to grab her husband's hand, the woman claimed, which annoyed her.


She said, "There are hundreds of residents upstairs. Who would want a store like this downstairs? Furthermore, there's a kindergarten and a tuition centre here with children frequently visiting. It's a truly detrimental influence."

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Sept 24, 2025

A 67-year-old grandfather has been sentenced to 36 months' jail for molesting his granddaughter, who was 13 years old at the time, on two separate occasions.

The man had earlier pleaded guilty to two charges of using criminal force on a person with intent to outrage her modesty.
 

Both the man and the teenager cannot be named because of a gag order to protect the victim.

According to court documents, the victim was living with her grandfather at the time of the offences.

The first offence occurred in June 2024, after the girl asked her grandfather to rub her tummy as she was feeling some discomfort.

 

The man lifted her T-shirt to do so, but ended up touching her chest about 10 times.

On Sept 23, 2024, the man and his granddaughter were alone in the flat when he molested her again.

The girl pushed him away and hid in a toilet in the flat, intending to wait for her father to return from work.

After confiding in her mother later that night, they made a police report on Sept 25, 2024. The man was arrested later that day and appeared in court on Sept 26, 2024.

He has been in remand since.

For molesting a child below the age of 14, an offender can be jailed for up to five years, fined or caned. The man cannot be caned as he is above 50 years old.

The prosecution had asked for 19 to 23 months' imprisonment for the man, and an additional four to five months in lieu of caning.

Deputy Public Prosecutor Shaun Lim said: "As the victim's grandfather, the accused would have been expected to provide a haven for the victim, but he exploited the victim's sense of security to commit the offences, not once but twice."

In passing sentence, District Judge John Ng said that if not for his age, the man would have been given 10 strokes of the cane on the two charges.

The sentence was backdated to the date of the man's arrest.

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