Fears grow for Chinese woman missing in Malaysia, as embassy says investigation under way
He Yuting, 25, is a frequent visitor to Kuala Lumpur and has friends in the city, but her family say she has been out of contact for a fortnight
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 February 7.
He Yuting, who lives in southwestern China’s Sichuan province but frequently travels to Malaysia for work, has been out of contact since February 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 February 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.