{"id":65851,"date":"2024-07-25T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T02:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/25\/taiwan-typhoon-gaemi-landfall-death-toll-path-tracker-latest-today"},"modified":"2024-07-26T01:15:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T16:15:28","slug":"typhoon-gaemi-three-dead-in-taiwan-as-storm-unleashes-torrential-rain-and-strong-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65851","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Gaemi: \u2018race against time\u2019 to contain massive oil spill in Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coastguard reports 4km oil slick as strong winds hamper cleanup efforts after 25 die in the Philippines and Taiwan<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2024\/jul\/25\/monsoon-rains-from-typhoon-gaemi-strike-philippines-in-pictures\">In pictures: monsoon rains strike the Philippines<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Philippines coastguard said it was \u201cracing against time\u201d to contain a massive oil spill that was at risk of becoming the biggest in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The MT Terra Nova, a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4m litres of oil, capsized in Manila Bay in the early hours of Thursday, as Typhoon Gaemi charged through the busy shipping route, whipping up aggressive winds and leaving 25 people dead in Taiwan and the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jul\/25\/taiwan-typhoon-gaemi-landfall-death-toll-path-tracker-latest-today\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastguard reports 4km oil slick as strong winds hamper cleanup efforts after 25 die in the Philippines and TaiwanIn pictures: monsoon rains strike the PhilippinesThe Philippines coastguard said it was \u201cracing against time\u201d to contain a massive oil spi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"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":[41,455,55,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-philippines","category-taiwan","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\/65851","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\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65871,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65851\/revisions\/65871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}