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SINGAPORE - An intern who recently ended her stint at The Straits Times gave me a stack of matcha cookies she had baked as a farewell gift.

"They are so good!" I exclaimed to her over the messaging platform Telegram after consuming four cookies in one sitting after a particularly challenging day at work.

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