SINGAPORE - After being apart from her only child for more than a year, Malaysian Natalie Boon, 33, had enough.
So last month, the Singapore permanent resident quit her job as an asset manager in a fund management firm here and flew to Ipoh, where her daughter Micaela lives with her in-laws.
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