1.   Chinese medicine shops and temples sit alongside chic salons and wine shops.

2.   Unlicensed storefront clinics and herbal medicine shops that treat patients in their back rooms are common in Flushing, doctors and other experts say.

3.   Patients have to buy medicines in case of emergency from the adjoining medicine shops at exorbitant prices.

4.   At an herbal medicine shop, the owner speaks openly in front of customers about obtaining a green card.

5.   Bear gall bladders and pills made of bear bile are being sold illegally at Chinese medicine shops throughout tightly controlled Singapore, animal welfare groups said Thursday.

6.   Bengtsson said those who preferred self-medication mostly bought the medicines over the counter, either from Chinese medicine shops, pharmacies or sundry shops without visiting a doctor.

7.   The newcomers have included drug kingpins and smugglers providing Asian medicine shops with the gall bladders of illegally killed grizzly bears.

8.   Chinese medicine shops here sell products like tiger bone wine, pills containing extracts of parts of the animal and whiskers, teeth and claws.

9.   Despite a ban, enforcement officials in Malaysia report a continuing trade in tiger bones, claws, fur and other parts in traditional medicine shops and jewellery stores.