{"id":5734,"date":"2019-08-05T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-brought-to-a-standstill-as-city-wide-strikes-and-protests-hit"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:21:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T05:21:09","slug":"hong-kong-brought-to-a-standstill-as-city-wide-strikes-and-protests-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=5734","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong brought to a standstill as city-wide strikes and protests hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 flights cancelled and train services suspended as city braces for fresh marches<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-protest-brings-city-to-standstill-ahead-of-carrie-lam-statement-live\">Hong Kong protests \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hong Kong\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has warned that mass protests have pushed the region to the brink of a \u201cvery dangerous situation\u201d as residents have gone on strike, paralysing the city.<\/p>\n<p>Lam, who has disappeared from public view for the past two weeks, gave a media briefing in which she condemned the protests for hurting Hong Kong\u2019s economy and stability.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/05\/hong-kong-brought-to-a-standstill-as-city-wide-strikes-and-protests-hit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 150 flights cancelled and train services suspended as city braces for fresh marchesHong Kong protests \u2013 live updatesHong Kong\u2019s embattled leader, Carrie Lam, has warned that mass protests have pushed the region to the brink of a \u201cvery dangero&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"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":[41,50,48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734","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\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}