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He turned a bad debt into a $90 million food empire
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Alex Chia became the reluctant owner of a coffee shop in Ubi when a loan he had given a friend turned bad. Making the best of a bad situation, he turned the coffee shop around and grew it into a food empire.
Mr Alex Chia's motto in life can be summed up in three simple words.
"Hao hao huo," he says, using the Mandarin phrase which means to live life well.
