The Taiwan International Family Association (TIFA) and the Taiwan International Workers' Association (TIWA) on Sunday called on the government to set up an office in charge of finding foreign residents missing in the disaster triggered by Typhoon Morakot. The two civic groups gave a press conference in Taipei to urge the authorities concerned to provide information about foreigners in the list of people who have died, are missing or are being provided with accommodations in temporary shelters. Speaking at the press conference, Yuan Chin-feng, a Vietnamese woman married to a Taiwanese man, expressed worries about her compatriots living in the devastated regions. Yuan told reporters that her friend Ah Hung, who was evacuated to a resettlement center in Kaohsiung with the family hiring her, told her that she had lost contact with a compatriot Ah Sheng, who married a native of Siaolin Village seven years ago. Yuan said, with TIFA's assistance, they were able to speak with Ah Sheng's family in Vietnam and learned that Ah Sheng's last call on Aug. 8 was disrupted and there had been no information about her since. TIFA executive officer Chang Yu-hua called on the government to help. 