{"id":29117,"date":"2021-03-02T01:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/woodside-among-global-oil-companies-urged-to-stop-cash-flow-from-myanmar-projects-to-military-junta"},"modified":"2021-03-02T01:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T16:30:24","slug":"global-oil-giants-urged-to-stop-cash-flow-from-myanmar-projects-to-military-junta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29117","title":{"rendered":"Global oil giants urged to stop cash flow from Myanmar projects to military junta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chevron and Total called on to cease operations in country, which receives $1.1bn a year from oil and gas, after Australia\u2019s Woodside suspends work there<\/p>\n<p> Global oil and gas companies Woodside, Chevron and Total should halt the flow of money from projects in Myanmar to the government or be held responsible for effectively helping fund the military junta\u2019s violent repression of the country\u2019s people, pro-democracy advocates say.<\/p>\n<p>At least 18 people have been killed by the military for participating in pro-democracy protests since the 1 February military coup, with soldiers firing live rounds into crowds of thousands demonstrating in cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/02\/woodside-among-global-oil-companies-urged-to-stop-cash-flow-from-myanmar-projects-to-military-junta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chevron and Total called on to cease operations in country, which receives $1.1bn a year from oil and gas, after Australia\u2019s Woodside suspends work there Global oil and gas companies Woodside, Chevron and Total should halt the flow of money from projec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1964,"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":[6,82,1945,80,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-myanmar","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29117","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\/1964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29119,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29117\/revisions\/29119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}