{"id":34918,"date":"2021-08-07T20:28:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T11:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/thailand-bangkok-protestors-clash-with-police-over-covid-management"},"modified":"2021-08-07T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T11:28:51","slug":"thailand-protesters-clash-with-riot-police-over-handling-of-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=34918","title":{"rendered":"Thailand protesters clash with riot police over handling of Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activists in Bangkok forced back with teargas and rubber bullets as they demand Thai PM\u2019s resignation <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than a thousand Thai anti-government protesters clashed with police in Bangkok on Saturday as they rallied against the government\u2019s failure to handle coronavirus outbreaks and its impact on the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters marched towards Government House, the office of the prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha, demanding the leader\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/07\/thailand-bangkok-protestors-clash-with-police-over-covid-management\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists in Bangkok forced back with teargas and rubber bullets as they demand Thai PM\u2019s resignation Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than a thousand Thai anti-government protesters clashed with police in Bangkok on Sat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"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":[41,1066,61,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-south-and-central-asia","category-thailand","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\/34918","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\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34919,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34918\/revisions\/34919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}