{"id":45063,"date":"2022-06-01T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/like-mcdonalds-with-no-burgers-singapore-faces-chicken-shortage-as-malaysia-bans-export"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T08:38:07","slug":"like-mcdonalds-with-no-burgers-singapore-faces-chicken-shortage-as-malaysia-bans-export","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45063","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like McDonald\u2019s with no burgers\u2019: Singapore faces chicken shortage as Malaysia bans export"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move to ease inflation threatens city-state\u2019s de-facto national dish of poached chicken and rice<\/p>\n<p>Supplies of Singapore\u2019s beloved de-facto national dish, chicken and rice, are under threat after neighbouring Malaysia banned exports of the meat in an attempt to ease domestic price increases.<\/p>\n<p>The Malaysian prime minister, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, announced last week that the country would block exports of 3.6 million chickens a month from 1 June to stabilise supply at home. The ban is expected to lead to price increases and shortages in Singapore, which relies upon Malaysia for a third of its poultry imports.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/01\/like-mcdonalds-with-no-burgers-singapore-faces-chicken-shortage-as-malaysia-bans-export\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move to ease inflation threatens city-state\u2019s de-facto national dish of poached chicken and riceSupplies of Singapore\u2019s beloved de-facto national dish, chicken and rice, are under threat after neighbouring Malaysia banned exports of the meat in an atte&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":784,"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":[41,2669,311,70,783,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-chicken","category-food","category-malaysia","category-singapore","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\/45063","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45064,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45063\/revisions\/45064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}