Dad finds missing daughter after 24-year search
A FATHER in Chengdu, China, found his daughter 24 years after she went missing while he was tending his street stall, Sin Chew Daily reported.
Wang Mingqing and his wife Liu Dengying had been tending their fruit stall by the road at Jiuyan Bridge in China’s Chengdu city on Jan 8, 1994, when their daughter, who was then three years old, went missing, Chinese news site Ifeng. com reported on Tuesday.
In 2015, Wang became a private hire car driver. He put a placard in the car indicating that he was looking for his daughter.
He also kept in his vehicle a stack of namecards which he gave out, with a photo of his daughter and her personal information, hoping he would somehow find her.
The story went viral, with local news media reporting widely about it.
After a renowned police sketch artist did a sketch of her, the photo was circulated online.
Wang’s daughter, who is now 27, saw the picture and felt it resembled her.
She was adopted and raised in Jilin province’s Panshi city, about four hours’ away by plane.
Her new family had reportedly found her by the side of a road in Chengdu as a child.
Kangying, as she is now known, contacted Wang and they spoke over the phone on Monday.
She then went for a DNA test, which was a 99.99% match with Wang and his wife.
On Tuesday, Kangying flew to Chengdu with her own daughter to meet her biological parents.
She said Wang tearfully told her “Dad loves you”.
Kangying told the waiting media: “The whole world said I didn’t have a biological mother – but I do!”
The reunion was peppered with tears and hugs.
“Thank you, thank you,” Wang and his wife told the media.
“This is too moving,” Liu said. “If not for the leads, she would never have found us.”
> Hong Kong’s “God of Songs” Jacky Cheung broke his own record for having the highest number of live concerts in a world tour, the same daily reported.
He has so far performed at 147 concerts for “A Classic Tour”, with a combined audience of more than 3.15 million people.
Plans were afoot for more shows until the grand finale next January in Hong Kong, thus exceeding the 146 live shows for his previous “Jacky Cheung 1/2 Century World Tour”.
At his recent concert in Shaoxing, China, on April 1, which coincided with the 15th death anniversary of Hong Kong superstar Leslie Cheung, Jacky sang Leslie’s Wind Continues To Blow as a tribute.
“I hope everyone remembers him,” Jacky said.
> Taiwanese student Sun An Tso, who threatened a shooting spree at his high school in Pennsylvania, United States, is the son of Taiwanese celebrity couple Sun Peng and Di Ying.
The couple visited An Tso in the prison, according to Nanyang Siang Pau.
Police found a gun and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition in An Tso’s home.
The discovery seemed to contradict Di’s earlier remark that An Tso was just joking about the school shooting.