{"id":55567,"date":"2023-05-30T15:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/30\/malaysia-investigates-chinese-barge-suspected-of-links-to-looting-of-british-ww2-wrecks"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:22:35","slug":"malaysia-investigates-chinese-barge-suspected-of-links-to-looting-of-british-ww2-wrecks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55567","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia investigates Chinese barge suspected of links to looting of British WW2 wrecks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Search of vessel registered in Fuzhou, China, reveals cannon shell suspected to date from second world war<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s maritime agency has said it found a cannon shell believed to be from the second world war on a Chinese-registered vessel and was investigating if the barge carrier was involved in the looting of two British warship wrecks in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The agency <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/maritimmalaysia\">said<\/a> it detained the vessel registered in Fuzhou, China, on Sunday for anchoring without a permit off southern Johor state, and that an inspection revealed scrap metal and a cannon shell it suspected dated from the second world war. It said there were 32 crew members aboard, including 21 Chinese, 10 from Bangladesh and a Malaysian.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/may\/30\/malaysia-investigates-chinese-barge-suspected-of-links-to-looting-of-british-ww2-wrecks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search of vessel registered in Fuzhou, China, reveals cannon shell suspected to date from second world warMalaysia\u2019s maritime agency has said it found a cannon shell believed to be from the second world war on a Chinese-registered vessel and was invest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[41,50,70,938,1993,535,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-malaysia","category-military","category-royal-navy","category-south-china-sea","category-uk-news","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\/55567","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55568,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55567\/revisions\/55568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}