The journalist, Li Xin, formerly a website editor for a Chinese media group, reportedly fled last October to India, where he told media that he could no longer bear working as a secret informant for the Chinese government.
He later travelled to Thailand. Li's wife, He Fangmei, claimed that he was planning to seek asylum before he went missing in Thailand on January 11.
Thai Police spokesman Dejnarong Suthicharnbancha today said that they have no information about the Chinese journalist and will only look into the case if his wife files a missing complaint.
Police said that the wife could file a complaint with police if she believed her husband had disappeared, the Bangkok Post reported.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee said the ministry had yet to obtain any information regarding the disappearance of the Chinese journalist.