(Aug 7): Toh Ah Poh is well known among finance professionals who work in the Raffles Place area. For some 32 years, he served them coffee and other beverages from a corner stall at the Market Street Hawker Centre.

Last month, as a CapitaLand-led consortium began preparing to build a $1.82 billion integrated development on the site, Toh and other Market Street hawkers moved to a new location a five-minute walk away, at the corner of Cross Street and Cecil Street, where they will operate for the next four years.

With the move, Toh figured the time had come to hike the price for a cup of coffee by 10 cents, to 90 cents. Toh and his fellow hawkers are not being charged a higher rent at their new temporary location, but some of his operating costs have increased recently.

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