The worried parents of a Taiwanese college student have requested help from the government and local media to find their son, who they said lost contact with them after traveling to China two weeks ago.
The student, Chen Shih-huai (陳仕懷), set off on a backpacking trip to Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, on Nov. 12 and was scheduled to return home the next day.
However, his family has not heard from him since he called them from China on Nov. 13.
Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation has asked for assistance from the Beijing-based Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits, according to the Mainland Affairs Council.
Local media reported that Chen, a junior at the Department of Financial and Economic Law of the Taichung-based Asia University, boarded a China Southern Airlines flight bound for Shenzhen at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport on Nov. 12 and had informed his mother by telephone on Nov. 13 that he was returning home that day.
However, they did not see their son that day, and do not know of his whereabouts.
The reports said Chen’s father has called his son on the cellphone many times, but the calls have all been forwarded to his son’s voice mailbox.
“For days, I have been unable to eat or sleep. I weep whenever I think of my son. I don’t know what I will do if anything bad happens to him,” he said.
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