Closer to Orchard Road, the giant Zouk and Velvet Underground are popular with Singaporean college students.

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Time to hit the shops: Orchard Road is ground zero for your credit card.

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That can create a seven-point disadvantage for Orchard Road merchants and hurt producers that don't pass through the cost.

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Later he opened the Royal Silk Store, a 2, 000-square-foot outlet on Orchard Road.

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Across town, Singapore Democratic Party members sell the latest issue of their official publication, The New Democrat, outside shopping centers on Orchard Road.

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The 46-year-old, of Orchard Road, Plymouth, was arrested for drink-driving in 2000 but his DNA was not on the database at that time, the BBC has learned.

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Shaun Harrison, 46, of Orchard Road, Plymouth, was jailed for eight years at Plymouth Crown Court on Tuesday for raping and indecently assaulting the 16-year-old in the city centre in 1989.

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"We're riffing on the joke about the chicken crossing the road, " explains Orchard when we meet at Studio AKA offices in the heart of London's Soho.

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We passed another orchard, and, again, there were gunshots from both sides of the road.

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