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OSAKA -- Rohto Pharmaceutical and trading house Mitsui & Co. will acquire traditional Chinese medicine company Eu Yan Sang International for about 800 million Singapore dollars ($594 million), the Japanese companies said Thursday.
Singapore-based Eu Yan Sang is the largest traditional Chinese medicine chain in Southeast Asia and a well-known name in Hong Kong. It operates over 170 stores and 30 Chinese herbal medicine clinics, mostly in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore.