Posted by: zanshin, 2008-10-29 08:54

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Date: 2008-10-18 (Saturday)
in Sudan, nine Chinese workers from the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) were kidnapped in an oil field near the western Sudanese region of Darfur






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