{"id":14332,"date":"2020-02-13T12:14:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/china-to-open-up-its-internet-for-100000-students-hit-by-australias-coronavirus-travel-ban"},"modified":"2020-02-13T12:14:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T03:14:22","slug":"china-to-relax-its-internet-restrictions-for-100000-students-hit-by-australias-coronavirus-travel-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14332","title":{"rendered":"China to relax its internet restrictions for 100,000 students hit by Australia&#8217;s coronavirus travel ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese students unable to travel to Australia will be able to access course material<\/p>\n<p>China has agreed to relax its internet restrictions, after lobbying from the higher education sector, so international students can study online while they are banned from Australia during the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Currently <a href=\"https:\/\/internationaleducation.gov.au\/News\/Latest-News\/Pages\/Novel-coronavirus-update-for-international-students.aspx\">more than 100,000 Chinese students<\/a>, who already have Australian student visas and were planning on commencing their studies this month, are stranded outside of Australia as a result of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/01\/coronavirus-qantas-suspends-direct-flights-to-china-following-us-and-singapore-bans\">government\u2019s 14-day travel ban from mainland China<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/13\/china-to-open-up-its-internet-for-100000-students-hit-by-australias-coronavirus-travel-ban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese students unable to travel to Australia will be able to access course materialChina has agreed to relax its internet restrictions, after lobbying from the higher education sector, so international students can study online while they are banned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":258,"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":[41,43,975,597,50,1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-education","category-australian-universities","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332","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\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14333,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332\/revisions\/14333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}