Malaysian victim of job scam cremated in Thailand


Goi Chee Kong and his wife from Ipoh, Perak when met in Bangkok. The Malaysian couple who travelled to Bangkok to look for their missing son was left heartbroken to find out their eldest child had passed away on May 11 at Mae Sot Hospital near the Thailand-Myanmar border.- Bernama

BANGKOK: It was the hardest goodbye that Goi Chee Kong and his wife had to make as their son Goi Zhen Feng, who was believed to be a victim of a job fraud syndicate and died on May 11 in Thailand, was cremated Thursday (Sept 15).

The cremation ceremony at Hin Kong Temple in Si Racha, about 120km southeast of Bangkok, was attended by Chee Kong, 50, and his 45-year-old wife.

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