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Mr Nur Irsyad Bin Abu Bakar, founder of online home-baking business, The Mixing Bowl. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI
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SINGAPORE - Undergraduate Nur Irsyad Abu Bakar has been selling baked goods online since he was 17.

"I like to bake and wanted to bake for people," says the communication studies student at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), who is now 22.

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