{"id":62945,"date":"2024-03-30T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T03:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/30\/us-funded-radio-free-asia-shuts-down-in-hong-kong-over-safety-concerns"},"modified":"2024-03-30T12:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T03:48:37","slug":"us-funded-radio-free-asia-shuts-down-in-hong-kong-over-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62945","title":{"rendered":"US-funded Radio Free Asia shuts down in Hong Kong over safety concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News service says it closed bureau after passing of new national security law known as Article 23<\/p>\n<p>US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security law known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/25\/hong-kongs-article-23-national-security-law-explained-in-30-seconds\">Article 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a \u2018foreign force\u2019, raise serious questions about our ability to operate in safety with the enactment of Article 23,\u201d its president, Bay Fang, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/30\/us-funded-radio-free-asia-shuts-down-in-hong-kong-over-safety-concerns\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News service says it closed bureau after passing of new national security law known as Article 23US-funded Radio Free Asia (RFA) has closed its Hong Kong bureau over safety concerns for its staff in the wake of a new national security law known as Arti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,48,86,238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-law","category-media"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62945\/revisions\/62946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}