{"id":34188,"date":"2021-07-19T08:35:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/thailand-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-protesters-as-covid-failures-fuel-anti-government-anger"},"modified":"2021-07-19T08:35:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:35:02","slug":"thai-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-protesters-as-covid-failures-fuel-anti-government-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34188","title":{"rendered":"Thai police fire rubber bullets at protesters as Covid failures fuel anti-government anger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long-running rallies against Thailand\u2019s prime minister have morphed into wider anger at coronavirus vaccine failures amid a surge in cases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thai police have used teargas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse hundreds of anti-government protesters who held a rally in Bangkok despite coronavirus restrictions banning gatherings of more than five people.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to avoid the spread of infection, many of the protesters drove cars or rode motorbikes, instead of marching as they had in previous protests. About 1,500 riot police were deployed, along with water cannon trucks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/19\/thailand-police-fire-rubber-bullets-at-protesters-as-covid-failures-fuel-anti-government-anger\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-running rallies against Thailand\u2019s prime minister have morphed into wider anger at coronavirus vaccine failures amid a surge in casesSee all our coronavirus coverageThai police have used teargas, rubber bullets and water cannon to disperse hundred&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34189,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34188\/revisions\/34189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}