The old medicine man

For more than half a century, he’s counselled and healed the people of Malacca. It’s a wonder, then, why more credit isn’t given to him.

No one can blame Malaysia’s oldest pharmacist for feeling a little under the weather. Since his interview with The Star five years ago, Chong Ngiap Lye, has undergone a cataract operation and lost his wife of 60 years.