{"id":48928,"date":"2022-09-29T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/sep\/29\/lady-of-the-gobi-trucking-coal-across-the-desert-to-china"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T10:30:33","slug":"lady-of-the-gobi-trucking-coal-across-the-desert-to-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48928","title":{"rendered":"Lady of the Gobi: trucking coal across the desert to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Mongolia\u2019s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her&nbsp;three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene&nbsp;and&nbsp;now,&nbsp;&nbsp;amid the&nbsp;Covid crisis, drivers&nbsp;face days of&nbsp;quarantine&nbsp;on the border.&nbsp;Trapped in a hazardous industry, Maikhuu&#8217;s journey reflects the human and environmental costs of Mongolia\u2019s mining boom<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/sep\/29\/lady-of-the-gobi-trucking-coal-across-the-desert-to-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Mongolia\u2019s coal highway to the Chinese border, truck driver Maikhuu dreams of a better life and financial security for her&nbsp;three children. However, the road from the mines to China is riddled with accidents, toxic pollution, poor hygiene&nbsp;a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[50,589,493,657,65,492,1385,2428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-energy-industry","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","category-mongolia","category-workers-rights"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48928","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48929,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48928\/revisions\/48929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}