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Dashed hopes after travel bubble with HK deferred again

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Singaporean Lynette Chua with her husband and two-month-old daughter just before he took a flight back to Hong Kong, where the couple is based, last month. She had booked a flight ticket for her husband to come to Singapore next month under the now-d

Singaporean Lynette Chua with her husband and two-month-old daughter just before he took a flight back to Hong Kong, where the couple is based, last month. She had booked a flight ticket for her husband to come to Singapore next month under the now-deferred air travel bubble arrangement.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF LYNETTE CHUA

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Hong Kong-based student Kengie Tang, 22, has been separated from her mother and brother in Singapore for the past six months.
Ms Tang lives with her Singaporean father in Hong Kong and had booked flight tickets home for this month. "During the months leading up to my exams, I missed my family so much, I contemplated returning home, even with the quarantine in place," she said.
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