Speakers' Corner is an area located within Hong Lim Park where citizen and permanent resident of Singapore may demonstrate, hold exhibitions, performances and speak freely on topics with compulsory registration on the government website. Besides we have Hong Lim Complex and Hong Lim Market and Food Centre while the Upper Pickering Street Flats had been demolished and the site is allocated for Hotel Development.
The Old Thong Chai Medical Institution is found opposite Hong Lim Park it was constructed in 1892 and known locally as Tong Chay Ee and in 2017 the building is gazetted as a national monument. During the 1990s saw the building becoming a Night Club and later a number of restaurants and in 2000 the building was under new management as a restaurant and closed down due the Sars outbreak, the building is now owned by Forever Living Products.
