{"id":26680,"date":"2021-01-12T14:54:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/malaysia-declares-covid-state-of-emergency-amid-political-turmoil"},"modified":"2021-01-12T14:54:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:54:38","slug":"malaysia-declares-covid-state-of-emergency-amid-political-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=26680","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia declares Covid state of emergency amid political turmoil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King grants lengthy state of emergency that critics say will help prime minister\u2019s precarious coalition evade scrutiny <\/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>Malaysia\u2019s king has declared a months-long national state of emergency one day before a strict lockdown is imposed on millions of people, a decision that critics say will allow its unstable government to evade scrutiny and cling to power.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by the national palace said Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah had agreed to declare an emergency until 1 August following a request from the prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin. If infections are brought under control, the measures could be lifted more quickly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/malaysia-declares-covid-state-of-emergency-amid-political-turmoil\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King grants lengthy state of emergency that critics say will help prime minister\u2019s precarious coalition evade scrutiny Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMalaysia\u2019s king has declared a months-long national state of emergency on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"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":[41,1066,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-malaysia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680","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\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26683,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26680\/revisions\/26683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}