{"id":14563,"date":"2020-02-17T12:10:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/hong-kong-armed-gang-steals-toilet-rolls-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-spreads"},"modified":"2020-02-17T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-17T03:10:28","slug":"hong-kong-armed-gang-steals-toilet-rolls-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14563","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong armed gang steals toilet rolls as coronavirus panic-buying spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of toilet rolls were seized by robbers outside a supermarket in Mong Kok as shortage begin to bite<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/17\/coronavirus-live-updates-us-citizens-japan-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-china-wuhan-hubei-cases-death-toll-latest-news\">Coronavirus: latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Armed robbers have stolen hundreds of toilet rolls in Hong Kong, a city racked by shortages caused by coronavirus panic-buying.<\/p>\n<p>Toilet rolls have become hot property in the business hub, despite government assurances that supplies remain unaffected by the virus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/17\/hong-kong-armed-gang-steals-toilet-rolls-as-coronavirus-panic-buying-spreads\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of toilet rolls were seized by robbers outside a supermarket in Mong Kok as shortage begin to biteCoronavirus: latest updatesArmed robbers have stolen hundreds of toilet rolls in Hong Kong, a city racked by shortages caused by coronavirus pani&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,50,1069,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","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\/14563","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14564,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14563\/revisions\/14564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}