{"id":66346,"date":"2024-08-22T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/senior-thai-politician-who-slapped-reporter-to-be-investigated"},"modified":"2024-08-22T16:30:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T07:30:52","slug":"senior-thai-politician-who-slapped-reporter-to-be-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66346","title":{"rendered":"Senior Thai politician who slapped reporter to be investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai parliament to investigate Prawit Wongsuwon after he repeatedly hit a journalist as she tried to ask him questions<\/p>\n<p>Thailand\u2019s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter as she tried to ask him questions.<\/p>\n<p>Prawit Wongsuwon lashed out at a journalist from the public broadcaster ThaiPBS on Friday as she asked him about the appointment of Paetongtarn Shinawatra as the kingdom\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/22\/senior-thai-politician-who-slapped-reporter-to-be-investigated\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai parliament to investigate Prawit Wongsuwon after he repeatedly hit a journalist as she tried to ask him questionsThailand\u2019s parliament has said it will investigate a senior politician and former army chief after he was filmed slapping a reporter a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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":[41,238,54,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-media","category-press-freedom","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66346","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66347,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66346\/revisions\/66347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}