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Tastemakers

Kueh chain Ollella’s founder overcomes $200,000 in losses to open fourth outlet in Tampines

Ollella founder Marcella Putri Tanuwijaya opened her newest outlet – a retail kiosk at Our Tampines Hub –on Jan 16.

Tastemakers

Meet the hero who pulled his fellow hawker to safety in Hong Lim food centre fire

Quick-thinking hawker Eddy Wan, 45, turned hero when he saved his 80-year-old hawker neighbour from his burning stall.

Resilience in the kitchen: 3 F&B operators who kept cooking despite failure, loss and illness

(From left) Ms Sharon Poon, co-owner and roast chef of Eat 3 Cuts., Mr Teo Chye Huat of Hai Nan Zai, and Mrs Jenny Png and Mr Sam Png, co-owners of Woody Peranakan Family Cafe.

Tastemakers

How a former property agent went from chance investor to founder of a fast-growing F&B group

Tastemakers

How love sparked this heartland baker’s rise to win World Confectioner of the Year 2025

hkbaker06 - Ms Joanne Huang, the co-owner of neighbourhood bakery Cake In Action was awarded World Confectioner Of The Year 2025 by the International Union of Bakers and Confectioners in a ceremony held in Brazil’s Sao Paulo.

The dentist who restores confidence one lifelike prosthetic eye at a time

S’pore’s lung cancer screening study detects cancer in nine participants; all are non-smokers

Lung cancer patient and Solstice participant Kang Kim Choon went for low-dose computed tomography scans as part of the study.

Tastemakers

Meet insurance boss Lucas Neo, who faced backlash over frank reviews of Michelin-listed hawkers

Insurance boss Lucas Neo, who sparked controversy and received backlash for his Exposing Michelin Hawkers series on social media, at Yuhua Place Market and Hawker Centre.

19 Guides and Scouts receive Singapore’s top awards

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam (front row, sixth from left) with recipients of the President’s Guide Award and President’s Scout Award at the Istana on Nov 13.

Life After... getting a transplant: He lived with a mechanical heart pump for more than 9 years

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