{"id":19777,"date":"2020-06-28T09:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/28\/escape-the-pandemic-in-paradise-fiji-opens-its-borders-seeking-billionaires"},"modified":"2020-06-28T09:12:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:12:44","slug":"escape-the-pandemic-in-paradise-fiji-opens-its-borders-seeking-billionaires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19777","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Escape the pandemic in paradise&#8217;: Fiji opens its borders seeking billionaires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister looks to attract \u2018VIPs\u2019 to help restore country\u2019s battered economy which is heavily dependent on tourism<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After months of strict Covid-19 lockdowns and resolutely closed borders, Fiji is open \u2013 for billionaires.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has announced the country is looking to attract \u201cVIPs\u201d to help restore Fiji\u2019s paralysed tourism-dependent economy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/28\/escape-the-pandemic-in-paradise-fiji-opens-its-borders-seeking-billionaires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime minister looks to attract \u2018VIPs\u2019 to help restore country\u2019s battered economy which is heavily dependent on tourismCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAfter months of strict Covid-19 lockdowns and resolutely closed borders, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1402,"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":[41,1069,436,914,874,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-fiji","category-infectious-diseases","category-pacific-islands","category-travel","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","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\/1402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19778,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}