{"id":42417,"date":"2022-03-14T14:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/new-zealand-halves-public-transport-fares-as-petrol-prices-soar-amid-russia-ukraine-war"},"modified":"2022-03-14T14:07:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T05:07:29","slug":"new-zealand-halves-public-transport-fares-as-petrol-prices-soar-amid-russia-ukraine-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42417","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand halves public transport fares as petrol prices soar amid Russia-Ukraine war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fare cut among measures Jacinda Ardern\u2019s party has introduced to ease cost-of-living pressures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/mar\/13\/ukraine-news-russia-war-ceasefire-broken-humanitarian-corridors-kyiv-russian-invasion-live-vladimir-putin-volodymyr-zelenskiy-latest-updates-live\">Latest updates in the Russia-Ukraine war<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/13\/russia-ukraine-war-update-what-we-know-on-day-18-of-the-russian-invasion\">What we know on day 18<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New Zealand is halving public transport fares to ease the pain of sharply rising petrol costs, as fuel oil prices soar following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced that the country would cut fares by 50% amid a suite of other changes to try to ease sharp increases in the cost of living. The government is also cutting petrol excise duties and road user charges by 25c a litre \u2013 changes that will come in at midnight on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/14\/new-zealand-halves-public-transport-fares-as-petrol-prices-soar-amid-russia-ukraine-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fare cut among measures Jacinda Ardern\u2019s party has introduced to ease cost-of-living pressuresLatest updates in the Russia-Ukraine warWhat we know on day 18New Zealand is halving public transport fares to ease the pain of sharply rising petrol costs, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,221,56,419,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-new-zealand","category-russia","category-ukraine","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\/42417","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42418,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42417\/revisions\/42418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}