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Mr Ho Ren Chun, director of corporate development at Banyan Group, fits in short stories and poetry into his travel time.
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Who: Mr Ho Ren Chun, 31, is director of corporate development at Banyan Group, which opened its 100th property, the Mandai Rainforest Resort by Banyan Tree
“Many of the most meaningful books have come to me through conversations with others. My copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude was a gift from a dear friend with whom I founded the Cambridge University Poetry and Prose Society when we were second-year roommates. On his old copy, he had written something like, ‘This gave me new dreams; I hope it does for you too.’
