SINGAPORE - For close to two years while studying at Innova Junior College, Mr Faaqih Hilmy Gozan's daily lunch was a packet of white rice with soy sauce or chilli, and the occasional egg.
The student was so embarrassed by his meagre meals that he would hide from his friends to eat, he said.
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