{"id":61091,"date":"2024-01-11T01:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/10\/papua-new-guinea-capital-rocked-by-violent-riots-as-police-strike-over-pay"},"modified":"2024-01-11T01:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T16:44:19","slug":"papua-new-guinea-capital-rocked-by-violent-riots-as-police-strike-over-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61091","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea capital rocked by violent riots as police strike over pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor blames looting on \u2018opportunists\u2019 as officers are redeployed to Port Moresby from regional areas<\/p>\n<p>People have been killed and shops and businesses were set on fire in the capital of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/papua-new-guinea\">Papua New Guinea<\/a> after police went on strike over pay, according to the local governor.<\/p>\n<p>Property in Port Moresby had been looted by \u201copportunists\u201d after events \u201cspiralled out of control\u201d, the governor of the National Capital District, Powes Parkop, said in a radio broadcast.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/10\/papua-new-guinea-capital-rocked-by-violent-riots-as-police-strike-over-pay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor blames looting on \u2018opportunists\u2019 as officers are redeployed to Port Moresby from regional areasPeople have been killed and shops and businesses were set on fire in the capital of Papua New Guinea after police went on strike over pay, according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[41,874,267,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-protest","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\/61091","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61097,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61091\/revisions\/61097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}