SINGAPORE – Mr Bentley Cheng was five when his family lost their Mercedes-Benz car and five-room Housing Board flat.
His father’s car import business tanked during the severe acute respiratory syndrome crisis in 2003. The family moved into his grandmother’s flat, where they lived for the next decade.
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