A National Yunlin University of Science and Technology student who has been missing since Feb. 23 was found on Sunday sleeping on a street in Taitung’s Guanshan Township (關山).
Law Wai Siong (劉威尚), a 35-year-old from Malaysia, had nothing on him except two cellphones and a memory drive, though the memory cards in the phones were missing, Guanshan police chief Liu Cheng-kuang (劉成光) said on Monday.
Liu Cheng-kuang found the Malaysian on Sunday night.
Social workers asked two young men on alternative military service who speak English to help get information from Law, who did not speak to them, but wrote that he does not remember anything except that he had “flown to Taitung from afar” and had been “hit hard” and “it hurts.”
The university said he had left his dormitory in the early hours of Feb. 23 on a motorcycle and had not been heard from since.
Guanshan police said that when they took Law in, he was dressed properly and looked as if he had been eating well and had washed often over the past two months. His motorcycle was not found.
Taitung social workers said that Law must have been through such a severe shock that he lost his memory and language ability.
The university said its staff and Law’s guardian in Taiwan took him back to the university yesterday morning.
His family in Malaysia has been informed, it said.
Law’s disappearance created a stir in Malaysia, with the Malaysian prime minister sending a member of parliament to Taiwan as an envoy on March 2.
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