Missing NUS student found dead in France

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National University of Singapore (NUS) PhD student, Cui Luchao, 27, who has been missing in France since July, is believed to have been found dead.

French newspaper L' Independent said that he was in the woods of the town La Bastide-Puylaurent.

The report also said that the police had recovered a note from his body that said he had wanted to explore the trail taken by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson in 1878.

The French police are appealing for any witnesses who might have seen him in shelter, or in a train between Nimes and Lozere.

Mr Cui Luchao was taking part in the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) PhD programme at the NUS and was on a research attachment at the Institut de Chimie Moleculaire de I'Universite de Bourgogne (ICMUB) in Dijon, France, since May 4.

He was to have participated in the International Symposium on Homogeneous Catalysis in Toulouse from July 9 to July 13 as part of his attachment.

He was due to return to ICMUB in Dijon on July 14 to continue with his research. However, he was last seen by ICMUB staff at the symposium in Toulouse on July 12.

He was also supposed have returned to Singapore on July 29, but he failed to board his flight.

His family had previously told the press that he was not unhappy nor was he in any financial difficulties.