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The search is underway for a Southern California woman who disappeared while on a yoga retreat in Guatemala.
The missing woman, Nancy Ng, 29, from Monterey Park, disappeared on Oct. 19 at a retreat in Lake Atitlán, according to her family.
Nancy, a former Cal State L.A. student who works for the Alhambra Unified School District, had planned to relax at a week-long yoga retreat, something she had done for the second year in a row.
Article said, the group was going to go out on the lake, so there could have been an accident on the lake. But it could have been anything. Maybe she left the retreat grounds and went into the village on her own. Some of the villages around the lake have been known in the past to harbor bandits that prey on foreigners hiking the volcanoes, and there's been other crime. But there's one village where North Americans have had winter vacation homes, that's pretty safe. But still... you never know.
Odd that there's not more info, considering she was with a group. And she'd been to the same retreat location last year, and loved it. No incidents that time.
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I wonder how common is that last name. Obviously it isn't common in the general population, but what about within the Chinese-American community?
I say that because one of the leaders (a woman to boot) of the Chinese-Dominican community in the Dominican Republic is Rosa Ng. She is a Chinese (father)-Dominican (mother from Santiago, DR) mix. Every Ng is related to her as Ng is a last name of one family (extended, not nuclear) as it isn't common. A part of the Ng's moved to the United States and by now had children there, whivh would make them American by birth. Is there a connection between this Ng lady (now missing person) and the Ng of the Dominican Republic? Are sll the Ng of the USA derived from the Dominican Ng or there is no connection?
It could explain the added (perhaps false?) sense of security of going to Guatemala (a Spanish-speaking country) on her own, at least with no one else from her family.
I had a colleague once whose family came to Canada as asylum seekers, and they had never been back since. According to her, GM was a scary place.
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I wonder how common is that last name. Obviously it isn't common in the general population, but what about within the Chinese-American community?
I say that because one of the leaders (a woman to boot) of the Chinese-Dominican community in the Dominican Republic is Rosa Ng. She is a Chinese (father)-Dominican (mother from Santiago, DR) mix. Every Ng is related to her as Ng is a last name of one family (extended, not nuclear) as it isn't common. A part of the Ng's moved to the United States and by now had children there, whivh would make them American by birth. Is there a connection between this Ng lady (now missing person) and the Ng of the Dominican Republic? Are sll the Ng of the USA derived from the Dominican Ng or there is no connection?
It could explain the added (perhaps false?) sense of security of going to Guatemala (a Spanish-speaking country) on her own, at least with no one else from her family.
Obama's maternal half-sister is married to an "NG". Her husband was born in Canada to a Chinese couple originally from Kudat Sandakan in Malaysia.
In other parts of the world, people with the last names of NG, WU, GOH .... and etc., have the same surname when written in Chinese 吴 . Take the former Canadian Governor-General, known only by her first husband's last name, Clarkson, she was born a POY and has the same Chinese character.
I had a colleague once whose family came to Canada as asylum seekers, and they had never been back since. According to her, GM was a scary place.
I dont understand why anyone, especially a woman alone, would travel to GM knowing hundreds of thousands of GMs are fleeing the country in fear for their safety/life.
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