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The son of a daily-rated worker and a housewife, N Gunalan spent his early years in a small flat in government housing quarters where the families staying there shared bathrooms. In one generation, his family’s fortune was transformed, thanks to education and hard work. He went to university and built a distinguished career in journalism. Now the Chief Editor of Tamil News and Current Affairs at Mediacorp, he is passionate about promoting the Tamil language and using his position to help the community.
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Eileen TAN entered the hospitality industry at the age of 17, at a time when the idea of women working in the sector was frowned upon. A strong sense of independence led her to work overseas, including a hotel in Tokyo as part of an exchange programme, and postings in China and Taiwan. Currently, she is employed by a real estate company involved in residential, commercial and hotel acquisitions and investments. Since 2020, she has served as a senior manager of the hospitality department for Asia.
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Daniel PEK Chin Kee lived in MacPherson, one of the early public housing estates in Singapore, for the first two decades of his life; attended school in the neighbourhood, and was an active sportsman. He said he was “mesmerised” by the ocean from his first dive and decided to become a professional diver. He stayed in the industry for more than three decades and he has dived in the Persian Gulf, the United States and Asia in the course of his work.
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