{"id":29815,"date":"2021-03-16T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/myanmar-protests-bystanders-among-20-killed-by-security-forces"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T06:00:05","slug":"myanmar-coup-fears-of-economic-crisis-loom-as-food-and-fuel-prices-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29815","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar coup: fears of economic crisis loom as food and fuel prices soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Food Programme says people already reeling from pandemic are facing double-digit price increases in staple foods <\/p>\n<p>The UN World Food Programme has warned of a \u201cvery serious\u201d economic crisis in Myanmar in the wake of last month\u2019s coup, with food and fuel prices rising amid the political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>The retail price of palm oil had risen 20% since the start of February around the main city Yangon, said the World Food Programme (WFP), while rice prices there and in Mandalay had gone up 4% in the past three weeks alone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/16\/myanmar-protests-bystanders-among-20-killed-by-security-forces\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Food Programme says people already reeling from pandemic are facing double-digit price increases in staple foods The UN World Food Programme has warned of a \u201cvery serious\u201d economic crisis in Myanmar in the wake of last month\u2019s coup, with food and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[919,82,1906,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aung-san-suu-kyi","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","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\/29815","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29834,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29815\/revisions\/29834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}