{"id":48450,"date":"2022-09-13T23:15:35","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/thai-court-orders-repair-of-the-beach-location-maya-bay-ko-phi-phi-leh-22-years-after-filming"},"modified":"2022-09-13T23:15:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T14:15:35","slug":"thai-court-orders-repair-of-the-beach-location-22-years-after-filming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48450","title":{"rendered":"Thai court orders repair of The Beach location 22 years after filming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling on Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Leh, comes decades after local authorities filed lawsuit over environmental harm<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>More than two decades after the Hollywood film The Beach was shot at Thailand\u2019s glittering Maya Bay, the kingdom\u2019s supreme court has ordered officials to press ahead with environmental rehabilitation work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2000\/feb\/11\/culture.reviews\">The 2000 adventure drama<\/a>, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, drew criticism for the impact of the shoot on the once pristine sands of the bay, located on the island of Ko Phi Phi Leh in southern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/thai-court-orders-repair-of-the-beach-location-maya-bay-ko-phi-phi-leh-22-years-after-filming\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling on Maya Bay, on Ko Phi Phi Leh, comes decades after local authorities filed lawsuit over environmental harmMore than two decades after the Hollywood film The Beach was shot at Thailand\u2019s glittering Maya Bay, the kingdom\u2019s supreme court has order&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":430,"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":[41,65,69,506,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-film","category-film-industry","category-thailand","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\/48450","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\/430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48451,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48450\/revisions\/48451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}