{"id":45702,"date":"2022-06-23T07:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/sri-lanka-prime-minister-economy-completely-collapsed"},"modified":"2022-06-23T07:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T22:32:18","slug":"sri-lankas-prime-minister-says-economy-has-completely-collapsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45702","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s prime minister says economy has \u2018completely collapsed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s comments come as island faces its worst crisis in recent memory, though PM didn\u2019t cite any new developments<\/p>\n<p> Sri Lanka\u2019s debt-laden economy has \u201ccollapsed\u201d after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, the prime minister told lawmakers in comments that underscored the country\u2019s dire situation as it seeks help from international lenders.<\/p>\n<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe told parliament the South Asian nation faces \u201ca far more serious situation\u201c than the shortages alone, and he warned of \u201ca possible fall to rock bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/23\/sri-lanka-prime-minister-economy-completely-collapsed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranil Wickremesinghe\u2019s comments come as island faces its worst crisis in recent memory, though PM didn\u2019t cite any new developments Sri Lanka\u2019s debt-laden economy has \u201ccollapsed\u201d after months of shortages of food, fuel and electricity, the prime ministe&#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":[61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","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\/45702","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=45702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45715,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions\/45715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}