{"id":28331,"date":"2021-02-13T04:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/too-good-to-be-true-the-deal-with-an-isis-linked-australian-family-that-betrayed-pngs-most-marginalised"},"modified":"2021-02-13T04:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T19:00:53","slug":"too-good-to-be-true-the-deal-with-an-isis-linked-australian-family-that-betrayed-pngs-most-marginalised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28331","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Too good to be true&#8217;: the deal with an Isis-linked Australian family that betrayed PNG&#8217;s most marginalised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sustainable forestry project established to develop PNG\u2019s Western Province has become mired in an international corruption scandal <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is always the stench of corruption around a deal that is too bad to be true or too good to be true,\u201d a full-page advertisement in Papua New Guinea\u2019s Post Courier baldly declared in May 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually, because it\u2019s not true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/too-good-to-be-true-the-deal-with-an-isis-linked-australian-family-that-betrayed-pngs-most-marginalised\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sustainable forestry project established to develop PNG\u2019s Western Province has become mired in an international corruption scandal \u201cThere is always the stench of corruption around a deal that is too bad to be true or too good to be true,\u201d a full-page&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1917,"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":[41,65,471,730,874,267,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-islamic-state","category-mining","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-singapore","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\/28331","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\/1917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28427,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28331\/revisions\/28427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}