{"id":47369,"date":"2022-08-12T08:19:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/former-sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-turns-up-in-thailand-after-singapore-visa-expires"},"modified":"2022-08-12T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T23:19:07","slug":"former-sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-turns-up-in-thailand-after-singapore-visa-expires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47369","title":{"rendered":"Former Sri Lanka president Gotabaya Rajapaksa turns up in Thailand after Singapore visa expires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa allowed in on diplomatic passport for \u2018temporary\u2019 stay, say Thai authorities<\/p>\n<p>The former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled overseas to escape protests against his government, arrived in Thailand on Thursday night on a flight from Singapore, where he had been staying since mid-July.<\/p>\n<p>Thai television stations showed Rajapaksa and a woman believed to be his wife outside the VIP hall at Bangkok\u2019s Don Mueang airport being led to a limousine, which drove off to an undisclosed destination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/12\/former-sri-lanka-president-gotabaya-rajapaksa-turns-up-in-thailand-after-singapore-visa-expires\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajapaksa allowed in on diplomatic passport for \u2018temporary\u2019 stay, say Thai authoritiesThe former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled overseas to escape protests against his government, arrived in Thailand on Thursday night on a flight fro&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[61,674,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47370,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47369\/revisions\/47370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}