{"id":31214,"date":"2021-04-22T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/australian-backed-company-accused-of-exploring-for-gold-in-violence-riven-myanmar"},"modified":"2021-04-22T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T17:30:15","slug":"australian-backed-company-accused-of-exploring-for-gold-in-violence-riven-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31214","title":{"rendered":"Australian-backed company accused of exploring for gold in violence-riven Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Access Asia Mining holds right to explore for gold across 1,800 sq km of land in Shan state<\/p>\n<p>An Australian-backed company in which rugby star John Eales is an investor has continued to explore for gold in a violence-racked part of Myanmar since the army seized power in February, human rights activists say.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Access Asia Mining met local officials in Mong Phyak, a city in the eastern Shan State, as recently as 8 March, the Shan Human Rights Foundation said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/22\/australian-backed-company-accused-of-exploring-for-gold-in-violence-riven-myanmar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Access Asia Mining holds right to explore for gold across 1,800 sq km of land in Shan stateAn Australian-backed company in which rugby star John Eales is an investor has continued to explore for gold in a violence-racked part of Myanmar since the army&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"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":[43,6,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-business","category-myanmar","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\/31214","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31215,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions\/31215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}