NUS PhD student missing in France

[Windsorlou]

NUS PhD student missing in France
Edvantage | Tue Jul 31 2012

A National University of Singapore (NUS) PhD student, Mr Cui Luchao, has been missing and unreachable in France for two weeks.

The PhD student from the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) programme at the university was on a research attachment at the Institut de Chimie Moleculaire de I'Universite de Bourgogne (ICMUB) in Dijon, France, since May 4.

According to a report from The Straits Times, he had participated in the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Toulouse from July 9 to July 13 as part of his attachment.

He was last seen by ICMUB staff at the symposium in Toulouse on July 12.

He was due to return to ICMUB in Dijon on July 14 to continue with his research.

However, he failed to show up and telephone calls made by ICMUB and SMA faculty to Mr Cui's mobile phone had gone unanswered.

Mr Cui was working on his doctorate in Chemical & Pharmaceutical Engineering.

He was then supposed to have returned to Singapore on July 29, but he failed to board his flight.

 

[ZorrorroZ]

looks like a chinaman. maybe he defected.

 

[Givanildo]

Missing NUS student found dead
Edvantage | Thu Oct 18 2012

The National University of Singapore (NUS) PhD student, Cui Luchao, 27, who has been missing in France since July, is believed to have been found dead.

French newspaper L' Independent said that he was found fully clothed in the woods of the town, La Bastide-Puylaurent.

The report also said that the police had recovered a note from his body that said he had wanted to explore the trail taken by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878.

The French police are appealing for any witnesses who might have seen him in shelter, or in a train between Nimes and Lozere.

Mr Cui Luchao was taking part in the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) PhD programme at the NUS and was on a research attachment at the Institut de Chimie Moleculaire de I'Universite de Bourgogne (ICMUB) in Dijon, France, since May 4.

He was to have participated in the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Toulouse from July 9 to July 13 as part of his attachment.

He was due to return to ICMUB in Dijon on July 14 to continue with his research. However, he was last seen by ICMUB staff at the symposium in Toulouse on July 12.

He was also supposed have returned to Singapore on July 29, but he failed to board his flight.

His family had previously told the press that he was not unhappy nor was he in any financial difficulties.

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[IsapKonek]

My deepest condolence to his family member.