{"id":52951,"date":"2023-02-26T14:54:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/australian-professor-and-two-local-researchers-held-hostage-in-papua-new-guinea-released"},"modified":"2023-02-26T14:54:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T05:54:47","slug":"australian-professor-and-two-local-researchers-held-hostage-in-papua-new-guinea-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52951","title":{"rendered":"Australian professor and two local researchers held hostage in Papua New Guinea released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Penny Wong says all hostages, including a New Zealand-born Australian academic, have been freed<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has said all hostages taken by a Papua New Guinean criminal gang have been released, including an Australian academic, and will be reunited with their families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to PNG\u2019s Government for its leadership in securing a safe &amp; peaceful resolution,\u201d Wong tweeted on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/26\/australian-professor-and-two-local-researchers-held-hostage-in-papua-new-guinea-released\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister Penny Wong says all hostages, including a New Zealand-born Australian academic, have been freedAustralia\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, has said all hostages taken by a Papua New Guinean criminal gang have been released, inclu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3607,"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":[41,43,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/52951","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\/3607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52964,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951\/revisions\/52964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}