{"id":21001,"date":"2020-07-26T20:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/search-rohingya-refugees-missing-off-malaysian-island"},"modified":"2020-07-26T20:26:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T11:26:09","slug":"search-launched-for-24-rohingya-refugees-missing-off-malaysian-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21001","title":{"rendered":"Search launched for 24 Rohingya refugees missing off Malaysian island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities scour area after people try to swim from a boat to reach Langkawi island <\/p>\n<p>Malaysian authorities have launched a search for 24 Rohingya refugees who went missing while trying to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim-majority Malaysia has long been a favoured destination for Rohingya Muslims seeking a better life after escaping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2017\/sep\/06\/who-are-the-rohingya-and-what-is-happening-in-myanmar\">2017 military crackdown<\/a> in Myanmar and, more recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/04\/our-only-aim-is-to-go-home-removal-plans-raise-tensions-in-rohingya-camp\">refugee camps in Bangladesh<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jul\/26\/search-rohingya-refugees-missing-off-malaysian-island\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities scour area after people try to swim from a boat to reach Langkawi island Malaysian authorities have launched a search for 24 Rohingya refugees who went missing while trying to swim to shore from a boat off the resort island of Langkawi.Musl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1166,"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":[41,70,82,494,85,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-malaysia","category-myanmar","category-refugees","category-rohingya","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/21001","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\/1166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21002,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21001\/revisions\/21002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}