{"id":3258,"date":"2019-07-15T00:51:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/14\/edge-of-catastrophe-report-warns-firms-and-governments-off-turkmenistan"},"modified":"2019-07-15T00:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T15:51:18","slug":"edge-of-catastrophe-report-warns-firms-and-governments-off-turkmenistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=3258","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Edge of catastrophe&#8217;: report warns firms and governments off Turkmenistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens of gas-rich, isolated state subject to food shortages and human rights abuses<\/p>\n<p>Investors and governments should stop cosying up to gas-rich Turkmenistan, according to a new report that describes the central Asian hermit state as \u201ca country teetering on the edge of catastrophe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Turkmenistan, second only to North Korea in the scale of its isolation and leadership cult, has long been courted by western governments eager to tap into its gas reserves and associated wealth. The country is thought to possess about 10% of the proven global reserves of natural gas, but is currently in the midst of an economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/14\/edge-of-catastrophe-report-warns-firms-and-governments-off-turkmenistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizens of gas-rich, isolated state subject to food shortages and human rights abusesInvestors and governments should stop cosying up to gas-rich Turkmenistan, according to a new report that describes the central Asian hermit state as \u201ca country teete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"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":[319,53,4,61,318,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-human-rights","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-turkmenistan","category-uk-news","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\/3258","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\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3259,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}