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This is a error message. Like English language error messages it explains that it couldn't take you to the link and what options you have available to you to find the link you want. The best advice from it was to try finding another link via search engine.

right. i hoped that somtam or the op might have a corrected link. i'd try to use a search engine to find the same or a similar article as you suggest, but unfortunately my crappy american high school-taught german isn't good enough for that. would you mind giving it a shot?

okay. i see that you already did. thanks for trying. regards.

It was working for me this afternoon. I had a look at the site around 3 PM CET. But there was only a short news about the girl missing. No details, nothing.

Dont even know if this is real. All news I googeled in the afternoon were linked either to the swiss newspaper or to this forum.

Not mentioned if the parents informed the police. If I remember right, the poor girl did not call their parents for about 2 or 3 weeks now. Well, she is backpacking. I remember that I once had no possibility for about 1 week to access internet and my parents and friends paniced too. In good old times parents were happy to get a picture post card once a month.

But there seems to be a Brit missing in Bangkok, which sounded more seriously, because he really disappeared with a strange message a day before. Never seen after and police is searching for him.

This storry sounds a little strange to me, no information, no police, no nothing

Okay, well even I could read the article in that link, and it only gave essentially the same information somtam included in the original post in this thread. Thanks.

I don't know. I remember in the old days when getting a message back home could be a difficult task, but I can't think of anywhere I've been lately in Thailand that didn't have fairly easy telephone or internet access. Since December 22 is a long time. No Christmas or New Year's greetings, for example...

Brief simple translation/summary of the above in order to help. This is a good lead.

3 sisters met this woman on Ko Tao on the evening of december 23rd. Nora addressed them and spoke about her visa that would run out. Her friends had gone off to Chiang Mai. Upon entering Thailand she had only a 15 day visa and she told the sisters that she was going to do a visa run to Birma/Myanmar.
She was a little down because she had to do this just before/during christmas and she told several times that she couldn't believe that she had overlooked that mistake of having only a 15 day visa.
The sisters had a good chat with her and left in the believe that everything would be alright.

Now, it seems that this puts a good location on her and perhaps the Thailand experts here can tell which border crossing with Myanmar is closest to Ko Tao where she would make that attempt and the search can probably start by contacting authorities and check whether she has attempted to do the visa run there.

Good luck

Hopefully she didn't cross into Burma and not return. Getting good information out of Burma might be trickier than if she's in Thailand. Still, three weeks is a while. You got to wonder what would keep her incommunicado for that length of time? Got sick and is in a hospital with no communications access? Seems unlikely.

Just an update, I just heard back from the person who contacted me initially -- the news story referenced above which disappeared was apparently in the family's local paper and was pulled at the families request.

Thanks again for the comments also many many comments on our Facebook story about this -- much appreciated all.

FB Page - https://www.facebook.com/AchtungVermisstWichtig

Thanks Mac have emailed them for confirmation & will post when I heard back.

Cheers

Yeah I'm not dealing with the mother, was a friend of the family that first got in touch - so figure Mum has enough on plate without me contacting her as well. Just waiting to hear back.

There was a number of weird elements to this. In the facebook link there was a harping on "respecting privacy". I didn't get that, as I would not want privacy, I would want maximum coverage to get the word out as wide as possible. Then she (maybe) shows up at the Swiss embassy almost a month after nobody had heard a thing from her. Why the embassy. She obviously got into some sort of trouble... But hopefully she really did show up at the embassy and isn't dead. That's a plus as these kinds of missing persons stories usually don't end well. Like that kid missing in Laos...

My thoughts on the whole privacy thing is that perhaps she is known to suffer some pyschological disorder - and perhaps without meds, she may have started reacting unpredictably. In that case, maybe the family didn't want that side of the story leaking out. It's one theory anyhow - but who knows? I guess the problem is that the less they tell you, the more people speculate.

Meanwhile, maybe dozens/hundreds of solo female travellers and their worried parents were freaking out about their trip to Thailand and worried they may be abducted. maybe she did get into trouble, was raped, escaped - who knows. Making all these pleas on the internet and then not following up is strange. Posting these things has an impact on the travel community - there should be an explanation given.

Ok, we've been contacted by a representative of the family who has confirmed she is alive. They've also asked that we delete this thread.

They say in part:

"We know where Tscherina is now, we haven't spoken to her in person, but we know she lives. Unfortunately, I can not tell you anything more until she is "safe and sound" in Switzerland, which might take a while. Her mother sais thank you as well, all your help ment a lot to her family."

Given that the main point of the thread was helping to find her and make sure she was alive, as that has been achieved, I'm going to lock off this thread and will delete it at the end of the month.

From what I understand (between what the family representative has said and reports in the Thai media), she was never abducted nor in any danger.

Given she is alive, I think the actual circumstances of why she didn't contact her family should remain a private matter between Tscherina, her family and the Thai authorities.

Thanks all