a beijing-based developer is building another juba hotel, the eastern pearl. the time is right for chinese investors, says serena chen, an official with the firm. >> we want to invest here just because the south and the north will separate and i will know, there are plenty of chinese and as long as china is a responsible partner, that's what's important. >> reporter: the chinese are not the only ones to see business prospects in south sudan. close to the river nile, it's miller time. a subsidiary of s.a.b. miller beer has invested $50 million in a beer and bottling factory-- the largest foreign capital investment other than by oil companies and cell phone providers. the brewery employs nearly 300 sudanese to produce beer and bottle water and soft drinks. >> the biggest raw material in there is water and that's from the nile river. >> reporter: what do you have to do to the water? >> all we really need to do with it is purify it. take out organic material and then sterilize it. the water quality in the nile is still very good. >> reporter: ian alsworth-elvey, a

minimum now we believe not only believe he said it is in in juba and right now there is. a conflict between the government forces and that of as early we who live there is in juba so there is the the danger that. the spillover effect of the the outcome of the of the referendum who have negative consequences for for the for what we are working on this we are talking to all the leaders of the movement that talking to the authorities in khartoum to really make this in win win situation well your predecessor mr dad became pretty unpopular in western governments and western capitals by the end of this turn after he said the following the constant and therefore is over and degraded to low intensity violence what's your point of view is a cover that over of it's not over but it was a right in that up to the first six months of this year more people getting killed as a result of criminal activities as a result of intra tribal into arab conflicts in darfur than the open confrontation warfare between the government of sudan and the our movement but six months the second part of thi

as david mentioned i just got back a couple days ago from a couple of weeks in both juba and khartoum, so i am going to share some general observations many of which are consistent with what zach just said. as you will see i have more questions than answers but that is frequently the case with sudan. overall i come back with a lot of the positive impression of where things stand concerning the referendum, despite the challenges it does seem a likely to have been roughly on time and that is certainly no cause for celebration that is cause for cautious optimism. the registration process by most accounts went smoothly. there are lingering questions about registration and the low numbers in the north in particular. there is certainly less violence in the south compared to a year ago and that is a definite positive. to cut through the punch line, i am weary of any prediction in sudan, but i think that the the return to a big north-south war is not impossible but not likely. i do think that skirmishes around the border for some time are probably a pretty likely thing that we do need to work

as david mentioned i just got back a couple days ago from a couple of weeks in both juba and khartoum, so i am going to share some general observations many of which are consistent with what zach just said. as you will see i have more questions than answers but that is frequently the case with sudan. overall i come back with a lot of the positive impression of where things stand concerning the referendum, despite the challenges it does seem a likely to have been roughly on time and that is certainly no cause for celebration that is cause for cautious optimism. the registration process by most accounts went smoothly. there are lingering questions about registration and the low numbers in the north in particular. there is certainly less violence in the south compared to a year ago and that is a definite positive. to cut through the punch line, i am weary of any prediction in sudan, but i think that the the return to a big north-south war is not impossible but not likely. i do think that skirmishes around the border for some time are probably a pretty likely thing that we do need to work

as david mentioned i just got back a couple days ago from a couple of weeks in both juba and khartoum, so i am going to share some general observations many of which are consistent with what zach just said. as you will see i have more questions than answers but that is frequently the case with sudan. overall i come back with a lot of the positive impression of where things stand concerning the referendum, despite the challenges it does seem a likely to have been roughly on time and that is certainly no cause for celebration that is cause for cautious optimism. the registration process by most accounts went smoothly. there are lingering questions about registration and the low numbers in the north in particular. there is certainly less violence in the south compared to a year ago and that is a definite positive. to cut through the punch line, i am weary of any prediction in sudan, but i think that the the return to a big north-south war is not impossible but not likely. i do think that skirmishes around the border for some time are probably a pretty likely thing that we do need to work