{"id":58524,"date":"2023-09-20T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/china-hong-kong-consulates-staff-personal-details"},"modified":"2023-09-20T10:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T01:34:30","slug":"china-orders-foreign-consulates-in-hong-kong-to-hand-over-staff-personal-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=58524","title":{"rendered":"China orders foreign consulates in Hong Kong to hand over staff personal details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forms have been sent out requiring names, positions, residential addresses and identity document numbers of locally employed staff<\/p>\n<p>China has given foreign consulates in Hong Kong a month to submit the names, home addresses and job descriptions of their local staff, according to diplomatic sources and documents seen by several media outlets on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The documents include a letter in English and Chinese bearing Monday\u2019s date from Beijing\u2019s Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (OCMFA), as well as two forms for consulates to fill in with their local staff details.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/sep\/20\/china-hong-kong-consulates-staff-personal-details\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forms have been sent out requiring names, positions, residential addresses and identity document numbers of locally employed staffChina has given foreign consulates in Hong Kong a month to submit the names, home addresses and job descriptions of their &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58524","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58525,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58524\/revisions\/58525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}