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Recently this Thursday China sent its officials to Sudan to insist the government to rescue two missing Chinese workers from a group of kidnapped people in oil fields in the western region near by Darfur. Earlier on October 18th nine workers were kidnapped among whom four were killed, three of them could be rescued and the two are still missing. This information was being provided by Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu at conventional news conference. Foreign Ministry, Commerce Ministry and Chinese National Petroleum Corporation officials would be holding talks with the Sudanese government as an effort to rescue the missing workers. They “will again call on the Sudanese side to continue sparing no effort to rescue the missing”, said Jiang. There has been a dispute in the report over the death of four workers. Even the Chinese ministry is not divulging the information details about it. Only thing that was revealed was that the rescued workers were properly medicated and are in a safe and sound condition now. The controversy arose when China said that four of the victims died during a failed and substandard rescue attempt and on the other hand Sudanese government was reported saying that the kidnappers killed the hostages after they were being spooked by surveillance plane. Reason for the attack has been predicted Chinese interests abroad in the terms of its business expanding globally to acquire energy resources and raw materials from different new markets. Sudan government has pointed the finger at the Darfur rebels for the kidnapping incident but their spokesman has denied any such involvement with the kidnapping case of the Chinese workers. This barbaric deed against humanity has been termed as “terrorist act” by Sudanese government. The Foreign Ministry said there will be certain new measures to protect the foreign interests and business of Sudan. Sudan gets a whole lot of its business from China. China buys nearly two-third of Sudan’s oil. This might have agitated few anti-government forces in Darfur, leading them to take such antagonistic measures. They argue that the oil revenues provide critical funding for government forces in a civil war which had killed about 300,000 people and left 2.5 million people homeless. Despite their attempts to scare people away, the Foreign Ministry earlier said that China would not end its business with Sudan because it was for greater common good that is the deals would be beneficial to both the countries. Keep reading for more updates on Hong Kong News
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