{"id":61120,"date":"2024-01-12T11:52:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/12\/papua-new-guinea-under-14-day-state-of-emergency-after-deadly-riots"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T08:04:05","slug":"papua-new-guinea-under-14-day-state-of-emergency-after-deadly-riots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=61120","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea puts capital under state of emergency after deadly riots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers and police patrolling streets where witnesses say quiet has replaced looting and chaos that reportedly left at least 16 people dead<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers and police patrolled Port Moresby on Friday a day after Papua New Guinea declared a state of emergency in the capital in response to rioting and other violence in which at least 16 people are reported to have died.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister, James Marape, declared a 14-day state of emergency, suspending several officials and putting more than 1,000 soldiers on standby, after a police and public sector protest over pay on Wednesday descended into rioting and looting.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/12\/papua-new-guinea-under-14-day-state-of-emergency-after-deadly-riots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers and police patrolling streets where witnesses say quiet has replaced looting and chaos that reportedly left at least 16 people deadSoldiers and police patrolled Port Moresby on Friday a day after Papua New Guinea declared a state of emergency &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3756,"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":[41,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-papua-new-guinea","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\/61120","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\/3756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61124,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61120\/revisions\/61124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}