{"id":52770,"date":"2023-02-20T12:47:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/australian-professor-taken-hostage-in-remote-highlands-of-papua-new-guinea"},"modified":"2023-02-21T02:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:23:28","slug":"australian-professor-taken-hostage-in-remote-highlands-of-papua-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52770","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea police launch rescue operatin to find Australian professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The academic, who was conducting studies in the highlands, was taken hostage along with three other researchers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/feb\/20\/australia-news-live-wage-theft-education-economy-voice-robodebt-interest-rates-housing-health\">Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2022\/oct\/29\/email-newsletters-guardian-australia-best-daily-news-emails-newsletter-free-sign-up-inbox-subscribe-headlines?CMP=cvau_sfl\">morning and afternoon news emails<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police in Papua New Guinea have launched a rescue operation to find an Australian professor and three local researchers who were taken hostage in the country\u2019s remote highlands, the Pacific island nation\u2019s police commissioner has announced.<\/p>\n<p>An armed gang had demanded a ransom for the captives, commissioner of police David Manning said in a statement, describing the gunmen as \u201copportunists\u201d and the situation as \u201cdelicate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/20\/australian-professor-taken-hostage-in-remote-highlands-of-papua-new-guinea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The academic, who was conducting studies in the highlands, was taken hostage along with three other researchersFollow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3588,"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":[41,43,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52770","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\/3588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52770"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52803,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52770\/revisions\/52803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}