{"id":10514,"date":"2019-10-28T14:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/28\/hong-kong-in-recession-after-protests-deal-comprehensive-blow"},"modified":"2019-10-28T14:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T05:00:59","slug":"hong-kong-in-recession-after-protests-deal-comprehensive-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10514","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong in recession after protests deal &#8216;comprehensive blow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial secretary calls fall in tourism an \u2018emergency\u2019 and says it will be extremely difficult for city to achieve any annual growth<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s financial secretary has said the region is in recession after more than five months of anti-government protests, and said it was unlikely to achieve annual economic growth this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe blow to our economy is comprehensive,\u201d Paul Chan said in a blog post on Sunday, adding that figures out on Thursday would show two successive quarters of contraction \u2013 the technical definition of a recession.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/oct\/28\/hong-kong-in-recession-after-protests-deal-comprehensive-blow\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial secretary calls fall in tourism an \u2018emergency\u2019 and says it will be extremely difficult for city to achieve any annual growthHong Kong\u2019s financial secretary has said the region is in recession after more than five months of anti-government pro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6,50,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10515,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions\/10515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}