KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 — As families reunited to celebrate the Chinese New Year, 30-year-old Kelly Wen could merely reminisce about her husband who remains missing on board the ill-fated Malaysia Airlines flight 370 that disappeared last March.

At a time when the sound of firecrackers filled the streets and auspicious ang pau packets were being distributed, only the sobs of grieving relatives and the shouts of angry family members filled the room where Wen and a group of MH370 next-of-kin from Beijing gathered to express their frustration at Malaysian search efforts.

“Chinese New Year is for family to be together but they are all sad because their family can’t come back,” she said.

Losing her composure, Wen says she has no answers for her 4-year-old daughter who keeps asking for her father — who has been missing with some 239 people for 11 months now.

“She points to the planes in the sky and says ‘please bring back to me my dad, I have something to tell him.'"

“I am so sad,” Wen said.

Wen and 21 other Chinese nationals with family on board the missing aircraft met with the media at a hotel here today to demand answers and greater transparency from Malaysia’s authorities.

“I hate the Malaysian government because they never answer our question. They make a lot of mistake(s),” she fumed.

Xu King Hong, whose mother was on board the missing plane, said every single person who flew down from Beijing ahead of the anniversary of the plane’s disappearance last March 8 has one demand — keep looking until the plane is found.

“We don’t want them to stop (search efforts). We worry about it,” Xu said.

Wen, like many others present here, refused to believe that there is any other outcome other than her husband is still alive and will come home.

“We don’t believe the flight ended in the sea. Our people die, we don’t think so [sic],” she said.

“I will wait for my husband to come back until I die. My daughter will wait until her father comes back,” she added.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared on March 8 last year, dropping off radar coverage not long after taking off from the Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing.

There were 239 passengers and crew on board the plane that remains missing till today, with no indication as to its resting place despite months of searching.

On January 29, Putrajaya declared Flight MH370 an air accident according to criteria set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation and that all the people on board were presumed dead.