{"id":25765,"date":"2020-12-17T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/fiji-imposes-curfew-ahead-of-cyclone-yasa"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T05:15:48","slug":"fiji-imposes-curfew-ahead-of-cyclone-yasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25765","title":{"rendered":"Fiji imposes curfew ahead of Cyclone Yasa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> People told to move to higher ground as 16-metre waves and winds of up to 350km\/h expected<\/p>\n<p>Fiji imposed a nationwide curfew Thursday after urging people near the coast to move to higher ground as the island nation prepared for a major cyclone to hit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/16\/cyclone-yasa-fiji-prepares-for-category-5-storm-as-tonga-braces-for-zazu\">Cyclone Yasa was expected to hit<\/a> the two main islands of Viti Levu and Vanua Levu on Thursday or early Friday. Authorities imposed an overnight curfew and declared a state of natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/17\/fiji-imposes-curfew-ahead-of-cyclone-yasa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> People told to move to higher ground as 16-metre waves and winds of up to 350km\/h expectedFiji imposed a nationwide curfew Thursday after urging people near the coast to move to higher ground as the island nation prepared for a major cyclone to hit.Cy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/25765","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25766,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions\/25766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}