{"id":30746,"date":"2021-04-09T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/fiji-reef-battle-judge-finds-china-linked-developers-guilty-in-landmark-case"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T05:48:14","slug":"fiji-reef-battle-judge-finds-china-linked-developers-guilty-in-landmark-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30746","title":{"rendered":"Fiji reef battle: judge finds China-linked developers guilty in landmark case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The case has been described as a \u2018watershed\u2019 moment that will test Fiji\u2019s environmental laws<\/p>\n<p>A years-long David and Goliath fight which has seen two Australian surfers take on a Chinese-linked company over their alleged damage of an idyllic Fijian island, has come to its conclusion after a Fijian court handed down a guilty verdict against the developers on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been described by Pacific legal experts as a \u201cwatershed\u201d moment that tested Fiji\u2019s environmental laws, as well as the willingness of the country \u2013 which presents itself as a global climate leader \u2013 to \u201cwalk the walk\u201d on environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/09\/fiji-reef-battle-judge-finds-china-linked-developers-guilty-in-landmark-case\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case has been described as a \u2018watershed\u2019 moment that will test Fiji\u2019s environmental lawsA years-long David and Goliath fight which has seen two Australian surfers take on a Chinese-linked company over their alleged damage of an idyllic Fijian islan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"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":[41,65,436,874,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-fiji","category-pacific-islands","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\/30746","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\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30747,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30746\/revisions\/30747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}