Tourist missing in Hong Kong: help find Ani Ashekian 1/7

[fasteasyincomes]

Has she been found yet

[punkurasson]

OK that chungking mansion is mysterious place where u can get lots of bad people there.. indians . pakisatani, blacks and i think some of those people must have killed her and got away with her money... killed her put her in the bag and threw in ocean... now this sounds real...i am from hongkong and criminals often do dat to hide their crimes..........

[moneyindabank]

she was probably into drugs.

[Ericules555]

check kowloon she may be there forced against her will

[acerb45666555]

no use of banking material. this may be a crime of emotion, not robbery.

[cczzzzz]

there could be a chance she was abducted? has anyone seen the movie Taken?

idk i hope i am wrong...but theres no way she wudnt try to contact anyone unless she was held against her will...

are the canadian police and local police in Hong Kong still trying to track her?

[arcanecraft]

How can they not find out what happened to her...theres gotta be cameras all over the place.

[curseknight5]

No affense but a person cant disappear for soo many months without contacting someone, unless she isn't alive...

[JOEYALEGRIA]

ITS JULY 2010, AND STILL NOTHING.. EVERY TIME I SEE THIS VIDEO I GET OVERWHELMED ,BECAUSE THEY SHOW A FOTO ,THAT I SHOT WITH HER CAMERA ,WHEN WE BOTH CLIMBED THE WAYNNA PICHU IN PERU.A VERY ENERGETIC DOLL. SHE WAS ALWAYS CONCERN OF ME MAKING IT TO THE TOP, THAT SHE WAITED FOR ME EVEN WHEN I TOLD HER TO GO ON HER OWN . THAT ,SHOWED THE REAMARKABLE SOUL OF THIS YOUNG WOMAN.GOD BLESS HER WHEREVER SHE IS AT..AND WISHING A PROMPT RETURN.......

[happymana]

All ladies who are pretty and alone, keep away from dark places at night, and don't travel alone.. If you don't head this simple advice, then you will have problems.

[ivantide]

It took me awhile to figure out where Chungking Mansions are--I only know the Chinese name. Too many bad things people've said about this area. Cheap, but extremely dangerous.

[crazybutgorgeous]

The first time i went to Hk early morning police knocked in my room and asked for my passport ... after they checked and see my visa they give a papey about this girl missing ... after i comeback last october ... they do the same thing ... i hope and pray that they can find Ani ... Me as a single back packers traveller are scared while im travelling BUT i have a tips to all the tourist who come to Hk ... Please dont stay in Chung King Mansion

[crazybutgorgeous]

Chungking Mansion is not a safe place to stay ... Very crowded , noisy & at night so many african man down the bldg and they always bother people who walked donw the street ... i hope and pray that they can find Ani as soon as possible ... You have my prayers :)

[Aoina376]

I hope she is found. My sympathy goes out to her family

[zxcashleyzxc]

Staying in Chungking Mansions was her fatal mistake.

[liljonslover]

it's been a year. my prayers are with everyone effected by this situation.

[butch1997]

To go missing in HK is very rare indeed as it is such a safe city with little violent crime, i have lived here for over 14 years and the one blessing is the knowledge that you can walk the streets late at night without thought. Perhaps the police should focus on places she might have gone hiking

or walking as tourists sometimes lose their way. People forget HK is surrounded by dense jungles, narrow mountain passes and hidden canyons.

[mdkkfc4000]

shes as good as dead and u all know it

specialy people whos chinese and know how HK works

2nd i am a chinese and i dont really find Hong kong is 1 of the safest place on earth

[floyd5666]

Any "chip" can be taken with you; it does not need to be implanted!

her money was not a concern to her disappearance but concentrate on her last known place where she was at the time she was seen no more. There is someone there that knows her movements i am sure. It seems that she was murdered due to no one asking for money or using her money. But why if so?

[amaziind]

it is a very horrific news, hope Ashekian would be found soon. i lived in HK for many yrs and i know "Chungking Mansions" is not a good place to visit. Hong Kong is a beautiful city. but for any tourists who r planning to visit HK, NEVER go into "Chungking Mansion" located in TST, it is where lots of robbery happens

[etrnlygr8tful]

Thank you for the heads-up. I am going to HK in a couple of weeks. If I come across Ani...I'll let you know. Almost a year now..but till you find a body, one must not lose hope esp. to all her love ones.

[RANGERSTRIDER1]

Maybe she has some kind of amnesia.

Dont give up hope and dont ever stop looking.

Keep spreading her photo and video through the internet. The internet is world wide. Somebody will recognize her

[ceasey0xoogurl]

But anyway, what happened to this girl was horrible, RIP

[Machelle3200]

man that's sad....women need to know it's extremely dangerous to be traveling alone...it's just too dangerous..

[RICK11211]

what the fuck she was doing all the there

[inachu]

sexual slave trade.

[pestilence4885]

Hate to say it but people need to look into RFID chips. Im totally against a government controlled RFID programs. But private companies can do the job and when some one goes missing you will know where they are.

I would be absolutely sickened if this happened to anyone that I loved or cared about.

The world is a dangerous place but technology can eliminate much of that danger.

In fact if you look at Iraq the violence has ended their because the USA is using nano RFID chips.

[ceasey0xoogurl]

Na, people should just be more careful. What would that chip do if your dead already?

[pestilence4885]

True it wont prevent death in all cases but lets say you are in Hong Kong with your girlfriend and you split up. You agree to meet at the hotel at a certain time. Well if she is 2 or 3 hours late you can immediately track her to see if something is wrong. This can mean the difference between life and death.

When I have a daughter I am getting her Chipped. This way If the skater kid down the street is in the process of impregnating her I will be able to intervene. :)

[ceasey0xoogurl]

Wow, to each his own..but, do you live in America?  Can you even get people chipped that easy? Seems like an invasion of privacy to me...and its kind of creepy...something out of a movie like Invasion or some other Government controlling people movie.

[pestilence4885]

Im a Ron Paul supporter so believe me I value individual liberty and freedom.

But as I said we are talking about a private company. Not a government controlled program. Although I think now they are starting a program where your drivers license is going to have a tracking device in it.

Anyway, go watch the video of Bob Woodward talking to Andrea Kramer about a new USA secret weapon. What he is talking about are NANO chips that are dropped by pilots and breathed in by insurgents.

Scary

[ceasey0xoogurl]

I don't know..I don't even like the fact my dog is micro-chipped by some private company. For all I know the Government will make some crazy bill to own all these private companies in the future. They'll make some justification up. Better for something that drastic not to exist...It's opening the door to it being the next sales pitch for politicians.

[akung94601]

I'm sorry! She has been murdered or kidnapped.

[Sloan1207]

What an awful thing to say. Do you realize her family is reading these posts? How about saying a prayer or something? You obviously do not have children.

[r215666f]

chung king mansion is safe?!

well, if you are a woman travelling alone, try rent a room for couple of nights there, and see if you feel scared or not.

[solarube]

To all those saying Chung King Mansion is safe, good for you, but lemme tell you that you at least havent gotten stares from some perverts in the streets. annoying as hell.

But i hope she is found soon. What is taking the police so long?

[xgirlbb]

I feel so sorry to hear that.Have you guys asked hk police to go in to Chungking Mansions,knock the doors and ask if there's any news ???I hope she'll be found soon.

[keesmuch]

The seedy perception of Chung King Mansion is baseless. I have lived in Tsim Sha Tsui for almost 10 years and have walked in and out of Chung King with no harm. There are great/cheap Indian restaurants there which I have frequented. Though it is a far cry of what it was once in the 50/60's where is it known to be favored by HK's rich & famous. It is still a great addition to the diversity of this community. I hope Ani finds her way back to the safety of her family.

[alvindurochermtl]

Chungking Mansion is no more sleazy and dangerous than some parts of Shenzhen and Guangzhou yet people spend their weekends in these cities all the time.

[chankalok1993]

I just simply wish her luck!

[4snowlover]

i hope she's doing fine and will reunite with her family soon

[yeungsimon]

I doubt she walked alone in the country side trails and saw some illegal activies like smuggling or else, then she was captured by those criminals to Mainland China in order to cover everything up...

[asossy]

Is this something that happens in HK often? Is there something else that we should be looking into? Where did you get this idea?

[yeungsimon]

Sai Kung District in HK is a hot spot for trail walkers, but this place has many smuggling activities too...

[avvaavva]

If you ask any HK ppl, I think 99% of them will say Chungking Mansions is a dangerous place and dont willing to go inside this building. I'm sorry to hear that someone is missing in HK. I hope she will be found soon.

[djmui2001]

i live in HK and i feel really sorry about it. and i wish ani and her loved ones the very best

[Veldiw]

Look closer; over the past fifteen years there are girls in Hong Kong vanished without a trace; like every 2 or 3 years there would be a case like that. Those girls are in different occupations- student, clerk.. the most unlikely personalities who would go wrong. Let's face it, you people, there is a beast out there on the loose. Not neccessarily the North Korea Conspiracy or what.. just a beast.

[cassidy99ful]

maybe north korea.kim jong ill is infamous for kidnapping people

[AAreborn]

A saw a poster..... I'm a hong konger too but I would never have expected someone in hong kong to kidnap someone...... =(

[ctin1516]

hey guy...i m sorry about that and i have heard of the news.

i m a hong konger......i dun think she is now in HongKong.....most properly she is kidnapped and sent to Mailand China.....

anyway take care and god bless her.

[snowwolfsabertooth]

haha Hong Kong is the safest places in the world? well maybe compared to the states ok so 2 possibilities (would this help?) she's still in hk she got smuggled out of hk if she's in hk then she is: murdered kidnapped hiding lost somewhere and had an accident if she's smuggled out of hk uh oh

[Lee038]

But I digress.

Chungking Mansion? That's... Definetly not a very safe place to be in. Despite the high amount of guestrooms, it's still a very dangerous place. The influence of the local residents(Mostly immigrants.) are horrible.

I hope she's not in the slave trade. -Sigh-

... May destiny tip towards her favour.

[onexpogi]

chungking mansion is very very dangerous place man. I feel so sorry.

[hamingkee]

God bless her! Hope she will be found OK!

[runescaper128]

theres probably only 1 thing that happened..just what i think. She might've made a friend when she was about to go to India. She was friendly etc, so she might've thought that this stranger was a normal person? When she arrived in Hong Kong, she probably got murdered,kidnapped, etc.

[haloblast]

Since you have lived here many years, ChillMB, tell me, how many times have you actually haad experiences with the HK police? You have no evidence that HK police are that bad.

[benedictblue]

Hey i live in Hong Kong and i heard that people like to kipnap women and smuggle to chin, u know where they become prostitudes and things like that,

[xshafinx]

Who would beleive you that people kidnap women in HongKong and sumggle to China? U are paranoid? China is full of many pretty girls who are willing to become prostitutes with thier own free choice, then why would someone will commit crime in HK and then spend money to smuggle them to China and make them prostitutes? HK does not have such crimes. i would say "people do not disappear in hong Kong". ANi case is an exception. it only need to increase the reward money and u will see the good result.

[benedictblue]

the fact that i live in Hong Kong and my grandpa's sister was kipnapped

[hbkx2]

I live in Mirador Mansion which is right next to Chungking Mansions, I have seen Ani's wanted papers posted on the walls before and police giving out papers about her but there has been no trace at all.....

[iceman168888]

I am very much worrying the fact if she still is in HK at all. I watched a movie before about kidnapping of the girls by some international 'organization' and they will bring them to other countries for illegal deals, you know what i mean? I do wish the interpol will really do something about it before issues like this get ugly .....

[jagga321]

Some of the comments made here were really disgusting. Shame on u ppl. Show some respect for the girl or disappear urselves n let others comment about where u might have ended up.

[justinjsaley]

I live in Hong Kong, and I never heard anything about this. How terrible this is. I'm so sorry for her and her loved ones.

[mckill2007]

i hope she's fine, but i do believe that she is in a sex trade right now.

[ChillMB]

Obviously she was either murdered in Chung King mansions or abducted into the sex trade. If she was kidnapped to be used as a sex slave, she will be in Europe, North Korea, Thailand, Cambodia, or some other middle-eastern country. HK police are garbage. You can visit their missing persons page just to see their poor record. In fact they dont have all the missing people actually listed.

[tokando69]

twat...the sex trade in NORTH KOREA is HUGE LOL what a goon and you didn't list one middle eastern country...so you can't say "some other middle eastern country". I have lived in HK for a few years now and I can say from experience that it is one of the safeest places but the least safe is probably that hole chun king mansions.

[ChillMB]

Ive lived here many years myself, and Im not worried about my use of grammar. I know exactly what I'm talking about. You can say "safe city" a million times over and yes, you may be safe right now,but dozens of others are not. I regress, that the HK police have a very poor record when it comes to finding missing persons. As someone else stated, the police here are little more than glorified security guards. This is a fact.

[tokando69]

I didn't defend the police if you can read

[jeedah123]

Oh shut up ChillMB

The HK police forces are doing their best to find her. It has nothing to do with the quality of the authorities, with so little evidence to work with NO other country will be able to find her swiftly.

Your lousy ridicules towards the HK police forces are pathetic. HK is one of the safer places in the world, with the last missing tourist case back as far as 2002.

Stop your prejudice and hope for the best. Private Detectives were hired, and they came up with nothing.

[jeedah123]

ChillMB do you work for the police?

You know nothing about the police in Hong Kong. With so little evidence do you think any police would be able to find her?

Why don't you tell us your great experiences with the great US cops. Tell me how they were about to locate a woman with little to none useful leads.

Quit your ridicule towards another country's authorities you prejudice idiot. Even private investigators are unable to locate her. Think before you type.

[Lee038]

Don't be daft. Glorified security guards? Ever had experience with them?

We're safe. We're safe for a reason. "But dozens others are not"- This is not minority report, this is not a perfect world. There are flaws, there are corruptions. Dare you claim that other country's police can keep every man and woman safe? There will always be people in danger.

Don't be so naive to deny it such a fact, ChillMB.

[KD1743]

don't worry, if I find her,I'll call police

[mcdamike]

Chinese police wouldn't be able to help, they are worthless overprice security guard. Need to hire pro. to find her.

[ChocolateYakult]

HK police are different, they are very affective.

[novitaadriano]

november 11 is my bday....OMG,i hope she's still alive

[ashmars2002]

For Christ's sake, she's got enough money to travel, what's the point to be a prostitute?

[ShInJiNjI]

omg... who would go to chungking... that place is like a thug's hideout. :S

[3000k8]

shes gorgeous so she probably got raped and stuff in chung king

[ashmars2002]

What do you mean? She couldn't go somewhere by trains and had an accident?

[3000k8]

Well, Chungking mansions known to be extremely dirty and sleazy, one of Hong Kongs rock-bottom establishments.

[alvindurochermtl]

HK people have the impression that Chungking Mansion is 'dangerous' mostly out of ignorance and racist attitude toward South Asians and dark skin people who tend to run shops or live there. I'm local HKG Chinese and I've eaten in restaurants there many times. If you respect them they would treat you nicely accordingly. That's just human nature.

[Iluvstunts000]

Dude i saw posters of her

[MKwan82]

Chung King mansion is notorious, not for the locals and absolutely not for a tourist. She may got kidnapped. If she manage to get out (not escort out by mobster), she should be damn safe.

[3000k8]

yeh im not surprised shes gone missing if she was in chung king.. like what was a tourist doing there in the first place!?

[xxxruzzelxxx]

she's pretty, oh my i hope she is alive

[moosicalxCHOPSTICk]

Aww.. :(

[xshafinx]

As the time passing very fast. i would say that offer of the award of HK$200,000 is too low. if it would have been to at least 1 Million , i beleive that someone will come up with some clues. Chung King mansion is notorious.

[sgtpandathe3rd]

HKD is fairly low, for example, a Honda Civic is about 200,000 something here.

[mckill2007]

wtf is got to do with the HKD???

[laib940511]

car prices are doubled in hk, coz the gov will charge 100 percent taxes on imported cars, as to reduce traffic in hk.

[GDOLCEVITA]

Perhaps she's being held captive. that's the only reason i can think of for living here for so long.

[ryan97303]

you dont

[ktrowbr]

Thinking of you every day Ani!!

[djstonedog]

I own a bar/club here in HK and forwarded this video on to our entire database as well as on Facebook and urging all reciepiants to do the same...hope we can all raise awareness and help find Ani. God speed x

[scmp888]

From the time she left her friends in Beijing, we don't know if she met anyone or travelled with anyone else ... we suspect she must have made a few friends between Beijing, Xian and Hong Kong

[hkmoviefan]

@scmp888 Has she been found yet? about 10 months already after posting this video.?

[dawlz]

she went to hk by herself?