SINGAPORE - Even after successfully leading a five-year-long, Unesco-award-winning restoration of Yueh Hai Ching Temple, conservator Yeo Kang Shua felt like that his work on the temple in Raffles Place was not done. After all, the 46-year-old wears many hats, and being a conservator is just one. Researching the temple's history for the restoration project, completed in 2014, left him with burning questions that stemmed from his other roles. "If I was just a conservator, I would have done enough research for the restoration and just stopped," said Dr Yeo, who added that conservators are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural assets using authentic materials and techniques, with as little intervention as possible. "But I'm also an academic and an architectural historian - and these other questions I had, they just made me want to find out more." In a newly launched book, Divine Custody: A History Of Singapore's Oldest Teochew Temple, Dr Yeo tackles some of these questions, and also documents the restoration work that took place between 2010 and 2014, saving Wak Hai Cheng Bio - as it is known in Teochew - from termite damage and damp issues. His research began in 2007, ...