Going far to start a family

Booming industry: A a staff member working in the laboratory at a fertility centre, which freezes and stores extracted eggs from women, in Kuala Lumpur. — AFP

With a busy job that left little time to think about starting a family, Erica decided to sidestep Singapore’s ban on egg freezing for a chance to have children later in life.

The advertising executive is among a growing number of women travelling overseas to get their eggs frozen, as people in the work-obsessed city-state increasingly delay having children.