SINGAPORE - She has tended to the intimate hair removal of more than 3,000 women in Singapore over about four years. But Ms Nurul Ashikin, 30, used to work with machine parts before lady ones.
Ms Shikin, as she prefers to be called, used to do manual jobs in factories but chanced upon a job opening online in 2012, for a new company whose services were confidential. At the interview, she balked when told the job would involve hair removal and handling private parts.
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