{"id":7661,"date":"2019-08-24T01:45:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/23\/british-travellers-told-phones-could-be-checked-at-hong-kong-border"},"modified":"2019-08-24T01:45:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T16:45:12","slug":"uk-travellers-phones-could-be-checked-at-hong-kong-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7661","title":{"rendered":"UK travellers&#8217; phones could be checked at Hong Kong border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Devices may be examined at crossings to mainland China, Foreign Office says<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/23\/hong-kong-protesters-join-hands-in-30-mile-human-chain\">Hong Kong latest: protesters join hands in 30-mile human chain<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>British travellers heading to Hong Kong have been told their electronic devices could be checked at the border with mainland China.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Office, which has updated its travel advice due to continuing protests, said: \u201cIn light of ongoing protests and demonstrations in Hong Kong, there are reports of greater scrutiny from mainland authorities at border crossings between the mainland and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/23\/british-travellers-told-phones-could-be-checked-at-hong-kong-border\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devices may be examined at crossings to mainland China, Foreign Office saysHong Kong latest: protesters join hands in 30-mile human chainBritish travellers heading to Hong Kong have been told their electronic devices could be checked at the border with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"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":[41,50,319,48,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-hong-kong","category-politics","category-uk-news","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\/7661","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\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7661\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}