{"id":41117,"date":"2022-01-27T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/27\/woodside-petroleum-to-pull-out-of-myanmar-one-year-on-from-military-coup"},"modified":"2022-01-27T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T04:44:53","slug":"woodside-petroleum-to-pull-out-of-myanmar-one-year-on-from-military-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41117","title":{"rendered":"Woodside Petroleum to pull out of Myanmar one year on from military coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian fossil fuel giant follows Chevron and Total in exiting the country as military junta\u2019s human rights abuses continue<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/australian-news-live\/latest\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia\u2019s Woodside Petroleum has announced it is following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/21\/chevron-and-total-withdraw-from-myanmar-gas-project\">multinational energy groups Chevron and Total in exiting Myanmar<\/a>, saying it is unable to work in the country following the military coup nearly one year ago and the regime\u2019s continuing human rights abuses and violence against civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The moves follow pressure from human rights groups, who have called on companies to stop doing business in Myanmar and cut off the flow of money from projects to the junta. February marks a year since the military re-took control of Myanmar in a coup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/27\/woodside-petroleum-to-pull-out-of-myanmar-one-year-on-from-military-coup\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian fossil fuel giant follows Chevron and Total in exiting the country as military junta\u2019s human rights abuses continueGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesAustralia\u2019s Woo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1963,"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":[43,2196,657,53,82,1906,1945,85,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-news","category-chevron","category-energy-industry","category-human-rights","category-myanmar","category-myanmar-coup","category-oil-and-gas-companies","category-rohingya","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\/41117","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\/1963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41118,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41117\/revisions\/41118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}