Before her captors abandoned her for the last week, she was blindfolded and chained to the inside of a tiny, dark cave. Her translator and driver-two Afghan brothers named Shokoor Feroz and Qaem Feroz-were beaten and left behind by the kidnappers. Fung alerted her employer using her mobile phone and stated that the kidnappers were not Taliban but "bandits". On October 12, while en route to a refugee camp near Kabul, she was kidnapped by armed men. In late 2008, Fung was sent on her second assignment to Afghanistan, based out of the Canadian military base at Kandahar. In 20 she was sent on assignment to Afghanistan to cover the Canadian military presence there. In her time as a national correspondent she has covered numerous topics on both Canadian and world affairs, including the Robert Pickton trial, the 2003 SARS outbreak in Canada, the trial of Mike Danton, the 2007 Saskatchewan provincial election, 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and uncovering Canada's international sales of toxic asbestos. Since December 2003, she has served as a national reporter for CBC Television, working out of Toronto and Regina. From February 2001 to 2003 she reported for CBC-TV News in Vancouver. After graduating in 1994, she earned a master's degree from Columbia School of Journalism in 1995. There, she attended an all-girls Catholic high school, then completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia where she contributed regularly to the student-run newspaper The Ubyssey. She was born in Hong Kong, and her family moved to Vancouver when she was four years old. Mellissa Fung is a Canadian journalist with CBC News, appearing regularly as a field correspondent on The National.įung and her younger sister are the daughters of Kellog and Joyce Fung. University of British Columbia, Columbia University
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