Watches in daughter's suitcase dent her hopes
By Zaihan Mohamed Yusof
January 03, 2010
A mother's search for her missing daughter has become a roller coaster ride of hope and anxiety, good news and bad.
When an unidentified body of a woman was found by the police, Madam Zhang Xiang Yun, 48, expected the worst.
But the China national was relieved when she saw a photo of an Adidas watch the police had recovered from the body.
Her daughter, Han Yanfei, a 28-year-old karaoke singer who had gone missing since 8 Nov, did not like to wear black watches.
But on Friday night, her hope turned to anxiety when Ms Han's KTV employer returned her suitcase.
Said Madam Zhang: "I was shocked when I saw two black watches which my daughter had kept in a small black box in her suitcase.
"Could the decomposed body be Yanfei? Is she alive?"