{"id":55478,"date":"2023-05-26T20:53:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/26\/vietnam-cities-cut-lighting-save-energy-heatwave"},"modified":"2023-05-26T20:53:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T11:53:04","slug":"vietnamese-cities-cut-public-lighting-to-save-energy-amid-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55478","title":{"rendered":"Vietnamese cities cut public lighting to save energy amid heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Measures come after warning of electricity shortages due to high demand and decreased hydropower production<\/p>\n<p>Cities in Vietnam are cutting the use of public lighting to save energy as unusually hot temperatures threaten to stretch the country\u2019s power supplies.<\/p>\n<p>A sweltering heatwave has gripped swathes of Asia over recent months, causing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/weather\/2023\/apr\/19\/severe-heatwave-asia-deaths-schools-close-india-china\">school closures and deaths in India<\/a>, as well as health warnings across many countries in the region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/26\/vietnam-cities-cut-lighting-save-energy-heatwave\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures come after warning of electricity shortages due to high demand and decreased hydropower productionCities in Vietnam are cutting the use of public lighting to save energy as unusually hot temperatures threaten to stretch the country\u2019s power sup&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1274,"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":[41,455,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-vietnam","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\/55478","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\/1274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55479,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55478\/revisions\/55479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}