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FOR the second consecutive year, students at Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) proved their product design prowess by emerging as national winners at an international student design competition.

Bennie Beh Hue May, Loo Xin Yang and Yap Chun Yoon – all of whom are second year product design students at the university’s School of Media, Arts and Design (SoMAD) – showed they were a cut above the rest at the national edition of the James Dyson Award 2021.

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