{"id":25065,"date":"2011-11-16T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/e-tech.com.sg\/?p=25065"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:46:04","slug":"thesundaytimes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/thesundaytimes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Media &#8211; THE STRAITS TIMES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tough early days made siblings stronger. Experience after taking over dad&#8217;s firm spurred teos to diversify business.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a case of all hands to the pump when the three Teo children joined their father&#8217;s small business in the trying days after the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jobs were hard to come by across the island and firms were cutting back, including at the Teos&#8217; E-Tech Building Services, which carries out maintenance work for residential developments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They survived, although it was a close-run thing, and have gone on to try their hands at other businesses, but the memories of those tough early days are still strong&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read full article here (opens in a new tab)\">Read full article here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img width=\"592\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger-592x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger-592x1024.jpg 592w, https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger-768x1329.jpg 768w, https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/etech-tough-early-days-made-siblings-stronger.jpg 1311w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough early days made siblings stronger. Experience after taking over dad&#8217;s firm spurred teos to diversify business. It was a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25065"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27500,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25065\/revisions\/27500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/www.e-tech.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}