Yn Seng kissing his biological mother Letchmi after they were reunited last week

A Malaysian Chinese woman has managed to find the Indian origin biological mother of her adopted son after a six-year-long search.

In a case that made headlines throughout Asia.

The National Registration Department refused to accept 19-year-old Chan Yn Seng’s birth certificate for an identity card application since 2003.

The boy looks distinctively Indian but his birth certificate has the names of his Chineseadoptive parents.

The Star newspaper last week published photographs of the beaming Chinese mother along with her adopted son kissing his biological mother K. Letchmi, now 60.

Seamstress Low Yok Wah, 54, already knew her search for her adopted son’s biological mother was over when she set eyes on Letchmi during their meeting.

“She has not changed a single bit,” says Wah. “I can still recognise Chan Yn Seng’s mother and she also recognised me that night at her house in Salak Baru,” Low told the media.

Yn Seng was given away to Low and her late husband Chan Wai Chee in 1989 by an Indian-origin couple that was then too poor to care for a sixth child.

When the government refused to provide an identity card to her son, Low turned to the press for help and Letchmi was found.

Yn Seng said he was very happy that he had finally met his biological mother.

“Life has been difficult without a MyKad (identity card) and I could not even get a job,” said Yn Seng who speaks fluent Mandarin, Cantonese and other Chinese dialects.“This will be the best Chinese New Year for me. Now, I hope to be able to apply for a MyKad. Hopefully, I can get a job and continue with my studies,” he said.— IANS.