{"id":13146,"date":"2020-01-22T22:06:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/22\/vietnam-beer-zero-tolerance-drink-driving-laws-introduced"},"modified":"2020-01-22T22:06:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T13:06:39","slug":"vietnam-beer-boom-dries-up-as-zero-tolerance-drink-driving-laws-introduced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13146","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam beer boom dries up as zero tolerance drink-driving laws introduced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum fine is double a month\u2019s earnings for many and has contributed to 25% drop in beer sales<\/p>\n<p>Vietnam\u2019s Tet holiday is only days away, and its open-air bars should be busy with drinkers ready to celebrate the lunar new year \u2013 but instead, owners say they are struggling to attract customers.<\/p>\n<p>The introduction of harsh new penalties for anyone caught drink-driving, introduced just weeks ago, have caused beer sales in the country to plummet by at least 25%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/22\/vietnam-beer-zero-tolerance-drink-driving-laws-introduced\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maximum fine is double a month\u2019s earnings for many and has contributed to 25% drop in beer salesVietnam\u2019s Tet holiday is only days away, and its open-air bars should be busy with drinkers ready to celebrate the lunar new year \u2013 but instead, owners say &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[969,41,1016,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol","category-asia-pacific","category-beer","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13152,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13146\/revisions\/13152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}