{"id":65569,"date":"2024-07-12T20:17:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/12\/app-that-tracked-fuel-tankers-in-china-used-to-transport-cooking-oil-is-disabled"},"modified":"2024-07-12T20:17:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:17:57","slug":"app-that-tracked-fuel-tankers-in-china-used-to-transport-cooking-oil-is-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65569","title":{"rendered":"App that tracked fuel tankers in China used to transport cooking oil is disabled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandal<\/p>\n<p>An app that allows users to track trucks across China has been disabled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/11\/china-outrage-fuel-tankers-transport-cooking-oil\">after a scandal<\/a> in which reporters discovered that tankers used to transport fuel were also being used to transport cooking oil, without proper cleaning in between.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Chinese media reported that the tracking function on Shipping Help, an app used to track cargos, had been disabled. The app displayed a message saying the service was being \u201cupgraded\u201d and was therefore \u201ctemporarily unavailable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/12\/app-that-tracked-fuel-tankers-in-china-used-to-transport-cooking-oil-is-disabled\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>App reportedly received a surge in queries this week after newspaper exposed food safety scandalAn app that allows users to track trucks across China has been disabled after a scandal in which reporters discovered that tankers used to transport fuel we&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3580,"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":[41,50,1209,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-food-safety","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\/65569","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\/3580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65570,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65569\/revisions\/65570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}