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The family of a Chinese student presumed kidnapped in Illinois have asked US President Donald Trump to provide additional resources to help find her.
Zhang Yingying , a 26-year-old visiting scholar at the University of Illinois from southeast China, disappeared on June 9. Police believe Zhang is dead, although no body has been found.
Brendt Christensen, a former master’s student at the university, has been charged with her abduction. Christensen , 28, pleaded not guilty to kidnapping last month and is due to stand trial in September.
Zhang Yingying’s father, Zhang Ronggao, cited the US president’s own role as a father in a letter he sent to Trump earlier this month. It was read out by Zhang’s boyfriend Hou Xiaolin at a news conference on Tuesday.
“As a loving father to your own children, you can understand what we are going through ,” the letter said. “We fervently request that you direct all available federal law enforcement and investigatory resources be used to find our daughter as soon as possible.”
Hou also told reporters at the news conference in Champaign, Illinois, that he and the family would not be returning to China until Zhang is found.
An online fundraising platform has collected more than US$137,000 to support the family’s stay in the United States.
Hou expressed his frustration at the pace of the search. With the missing woman’s parents standing nearby during the news conference, Hou said her family and friends “feel helpless” because they don’t know when their ordeal will end.
“Yingying is a kind , optimistic, diligent and brave girl,” Hou said. “She would not give up on anything or anybody as long as there was a glimmer of hope. So we will never give up on her, either.”
Hou said investigators shared “good news” about the evidence they’ve collected, but no details and no breakthrough yet on where Zhang might be.
Hou said Zhang’s father walks to his daughter’s old apartment and stays there for hours.
“I never asked him why. But I think this is the only way he has now to cure his wound ,” Hou said.
Zhang disappeared just weeks after arriving at the Urbana-Champaign campus in central Illinois where she was doing research in agricultural sciences. She was expected to begin work on her doctorate in the fall.
Christensen is accused of kidnapping Zhang in Urbana, 225 kilometers southwest of Chicago.
Investigators said Zhang was abducted after she left campus to sign an apartment lease. They believe Christensen lured her into his car.
Christensen, who earned a master’s degree in physics from the university this year, was placed under surveillance by federal agents who heard him talking about how he had kidnapped Zhang, court records said. He faces a life sentence if convicted.
Christensen’s attorney Anthony Bruno told reporters the defense had received more than 1 ,000 pages of police reports related to the case and expected to gain access to video evidence soon.
Bruno said he plans to request a delay to the start of the trial to get additional time to review the “enormous” amount of evidence received from the government.
A spokesman for the FBI’s Springfield, Illinois, office referred questions to US Attorney spokeswoman Sharon Paul.
Paul said prosecutors had no update on Zhang Yingying’s whereabouts and declined to provide details of search efforts.
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- Singapore-based oil and gas company KrisEnergy signed a long-awaited production- sharing agreement with the Cambodian government on Wednesday for the first-ever extraction of petroleum from Block A in Cambodian territorial waters.
The deal was inked here between KrisEnergy's chief operating officer Kelvin Tang and Cambodian Industry, Mines and Energy Minister Suy Sem and Economy and Finance Minister Aun Pornmoniroth.
KrisEnergy holds a 95 percent stake in the 3 ,083-sq-km offshore block, and the Cambodian government owns the remaining 5 percent.
Kelvin Tang said the agreement was a significant milestone for Cambodia in its long journey to become an oil-producing nation.
"This is a major step. It is Cambodia's first oil field," he said after the signing ceremony.
"Shortly after the signing, we will declare final investment decision and proceed to deliver 1st oil in 24 month -- sometime in 2019," he said , denying to disclose the investment cost for the project.
Suy Sem said the agreement was the crucial commencement towards first crude oil production from offshore Cambodia.
"It is estimated that Phase 1A and Phase 1B (of the stage one of Block A) will provide more than 30 million barrels over the period of nine years, and it is sufficient commercially to make Cambodia become an oil producing country in the future," he said.
"The development of Block A is also a catalyst to more intense exploration works in another five offshore and 18 onshore blocks," he said.
The minister said the oil business would be a major new impetus for social advancement, human resource development , building Cambodia's competitive capacity, and growth of domestic production and service chains.
He added that the ministry was working hard to push forward the finalization of Law on Petroleum Sector Management and other regulations to ensure investment atmosphere and clarity in the private sector investment.
According to Aun Pornmoniroth, the petroleum agreement was first signed between the Cambodian government and U.S. oil giant Chevron in 2002. Later on, KrisEnergy gradually increased its share in 2011, 2014 and 2016 , respectively to become the main operator with 95 percent share.
"Today's signing of agreement is just the starting point of a very long journey which requires participation from all related parties to realize the production of first oil drop in Cambodia," he said, promising to provid
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