SINGAPORE -- Hundreds of people trek every day to the northern tip of Singapore to tour a factory where the local unit of Japan's Yakult Honsha fills up to 283,000 tiny plastic foil-capped bottles with probiotic cultured milk each day.
Singapore's system for grading the healthiness of drinks is being studied by Malaysia and other neighboring countries also concerned about rising levels of obesity. (Photos by Tsubasa Suruga and Norman Goh)
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