HONG KONG: The Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur is working with local authorities in an effort to trace a 25-year-old Chinese woman who has been missing for two weeks, after arriving in the Malaysian capital on Feb 7.
He Yuting, who lives in southwestern China’s Sichuan province but frequently travels to Malaysia for work, has been out of contact since Feb 22, her family told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday.
He’s mother, Wang Lunyan, said that the last time she spoke to her daughter, she told her she was well and not to worry. But since Feb 22, He’s phone has been turned off and none of her mother’s messages have been returned.
Wang said that He worked as a daigou – a kind of personal shopper who buys goods in foreign countries to take advantage of preferential prices – and had been travelling to Malaysia two or three times a year since 2015.
He left her home in the city of Mianzhu for her most recent visit to Kuala Lumpur on Feb 7, but did not tell her family the exact purpose of the trip.
“She didn’t tell me why she was going to Malaysia… I asked her if she was going to see her boyfriend, she just smiled and didn’t say yes or no,” Wang said.
Wang, who works as a waitress, said she had applied for a visa to visit Malaysia so she could report her daughter missing to the police, and was waiting for the paperwork to come through. The process usually takes seven days, she said.
The Chinese embassy in Kuala Lumpur said it had already begun working with the local police.
“We are very concerned about the personal safety of He Yuting,” a worker at the consular protection department told the Post.
“We have communicated with the Malaysian government and police, and they will contact us once they have an update.”
He’s family said they knew little about her life in Malaysia, apart from the fact she had a Chinese boyfriend who lived there, and that when she stayed in Kuala Lumpur it was with a female friend, who is also Chinese… (CONTINUED)
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