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Why the man leading NKF has always believed in playing the long game
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As NKF chairman, Ang Hao Yao is betting on patience and prevention to tackle chronic kidney disease, one of Singapore’s fastest-growing health crises.
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SINGAPORE – When Ang Hao Yao was a university student in California in the late 1980s, he would drive alone to arm-wrestling tournaments in the middle of nowhere, sometimes picking up strangers along the way.
Young and slight – just 1.72m tall and weighing barely 62kg then – he looked nothing like the truckers-and-tough-guys stereotype the sport was known for.
