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Daily Cuts - A Letter to Myself: Norhuda Rabani's recipe for overcoming setbacks, leadership, and family

When she first started her food business in her home kitchen in 2004, Norhuda Rabani, went door-to-door to sell her homemade rempah (food pastes). Today, Asyura Pastes is a thriving business run from an industrial kitchen, has a wide distribution network, and it's something of a household name particularly in the Malay community. Norhuda shares how, despite facing significant adversity — including the emotional weight of having been given up for adoption as a child, and an earlier failed business — she has grown to consider herself fortunate.

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Daily Cuts - Is 'tailgating fee' common among gyms?

Do you normally check if the door is closed behind you when you're at the gym? The big question is - is it even your responsibility? One gym member from Anytime Fitness had to pay $60 ‘tailgating fee’ because an unidentified woman entered the gym behind him without using her own key fob. Anytime Fitness ended up apologising to the member. But Ken Mok, Owner and CEO of Fiitboxx says he doesn’t think the onus is entirely on the member to make sure there is no tailgating. 

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Daily Cuts - Shaping our Tech Start-Up Ecosystem's future

Singapore Today’s Lance Alexander and Daniel Martin speak with Shirley Wong, Chairperson of the SMU Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’s Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition Steering Committee, about what could be done to shape the future of the Tech Start-Up Ecosystem here and around the South-East Asia region.

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