A dream come true for Doraisingam


FOR The Lotus Family Restaurant Holdings Sdn Bhd chief executive officer Datuk R. Doraisingam remembers vividly that day in 1975, when he was 15 years old and about to present his LCE report card to his father N. Rengasamy Pillai. 

The former student of St Xavier’s Institution Penang had failed his Form Three exams and could not imagine how his father would react. He was feeling nauseous and his hands were trembling. 

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