{"id":47557,"date":"2022-08-17T14:59:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/thai-instant-noodle-makers-seek-government-approval-for-first-price-hike-in-14-years"},"modified":"2022-08-17T14:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:59:57","slug":"thai-instant-noodle-makers-seek-government-approval-for-first-price-hike-in-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47557","title":{"rendered":"Thai instant noodle makers seek government approval for first price hike in 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plea to government, which controls prices on some essentials, to allow rise as war in Ukraine and extreme weather drive up costs<\/p>\n<p>Five major producers of instant noodles have urged the Thai government to allow them to increase their prices within a week, warning of soaring production costs affecting one of the country\u2019s most popular grocery items.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Ukraine, as well as droughts and floods over the past year, have caused the cost of wheat, energy and transport costs to rise sharply, affecting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jun\/16\/noodle-prices-heat-up-as-wheat-supply-goes-to-pot\">noodle prices across Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/17\/thai-instant-noodle-makers-seek-government-approval-for-first-price-hike-in-14-years\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plea to government, which controls prices on some essentials, to allow rise as war in Ukraine and extreme weather drive up costsFive major producers of instant noodles have urged the Thai government to allow them to increase their prices within a week,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"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":[41,2535,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cost-of-living-crisis","category-thailand"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557","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\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47558,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47557\/revisions\/47558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}