{"id":6784,"date":"2019-08-12T17:37:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests"},"modified":"2019-08-13T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T15:23:54","slug":"hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6784","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong airport authority cancels flights over protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists remain in airport during demonstration, with flights to resume on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong protesters have shut down one of the world\u2019s busiest airports in a dramatic escalation of the mass demonstrations that have plunged the city into its worst political crisis in decades.<\/p>\n<p>The unprecedented cancellation of all flights followed the fourth consecutive day of protests at the airport and amid increasingly threatening statements from Beijing. A Chinese official said \u201cterrorism\u201d was emerging in the city, while in Hong Kong authorities demonstrated water cannon for use in crowd control.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/hong-kong-airport-authority-cancels-flights-over-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tourists remain in airport during demonstration, with flights to resume on TuesdayHong Kong protesters have shut down one of the world\u2019s busiest airports in a dramatic escalation of the mass demonstrations that have plunged the city into its worst poli&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"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":[376,41,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-transport","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-protest","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\/6784","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\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6784\/revisions\/6910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}