{"id":30573,"date":"2021-04-04T14:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/04\/hong-kong-police-seize-record-700kg-of-cocaine"},"modified":"2021-04-04T14:21:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T05:21:53","slug":"hong-kong-police-seize-record-700kg-of-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30573","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong police seize record 700kg of cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say collapse of travel during Covid has forced smugglers to make bulk shipments instead of using drug mules<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong police have announced a record-breaking 700kg cocaine seizure with officers suspecting the huge shipment was smuggled into the city on speedboats.<\/p>\n<p>The bust is the largest in the territory in nearly a decade and netted some HK$930m-worth ($119.6m) of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/04\/hong-kong-police-seize-record-700kg-of-cocaine\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say collapse of travel during Covid has forced smugglers to make bulk shipments instead of using drug mulesHong Kong police have announced a record-breaking 700kg cocaine seizure with officers suspecting the huge shipment was smuggled into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,1057,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drugs-trade","category-hong-kong","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\/30573","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30574,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30573\/revisions\/30574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}