{"id":73644,"date":"2025-08-26T08:46:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/piracy-straits-of-malacca-singapore"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:46:01","slug":"piracy-and-armed-robbery-surge-in-the-straits-of-malacca-and-singapore-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73644","title":{"rendered":"Piracy and armed robbery surge in the straits of Malacca and Singapore \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first six months of this year there were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the strategic waterways<\/p>\n<p>Incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the straits of Malacca and Singapore have nearly quadrupled in the strategic waterways this year, according to a new report from an anti-piracy monitoring group.<\/p>\n<p>In the first six months of this year there were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the straits, according to ReCAAP\u2019s Information Sharing Centre (ISC). In the same period last year there were 21 incidents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/26\/piracy-straits-of-malacca-singapore\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first six months of this year there were 80 incidents of piracy and armed robbery in the strategic waterwaysIncidents of piracy and armed robbery in the straits of Malacca and Singapore have nearly quadrupled in the strategic waterways this year&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4898,"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":[41,156,3385,783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-indonesia","category-piracy-at-sea","category-singapore"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73644","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\/4898"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73645,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73644\/revisions\/73645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}