{"id":77079,"date":"2026-04-20T10:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/fire-destroys-1000-stilt-homes-in-malaysias-sabah-displacing-thousands"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:59:16","slug":"fire-destroys-1000-stilt-homes-in-malaysias-sabah-displacing-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77079","title":{"rendered":"Fire destroys 1,000 \u2018stilt\u2019 homes in Malaysia\u2019s Sabah, displacing thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze struck a \u2018water village\u2019 that is home to some of Malaysia\u2019s poorest residents<\/p>\n<p>A huge fire destroyed about 1,000 makeshift homes, many of them built on stilts over water, and displaced thousands of people in a coastal village in Malaysia\u2019s Sabah state on Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out early on Sunday morning in a \u201cwater village\u201d in Sandakan district in Sabah\u2019s northeast, where some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/malaysia\">Malaysia\u2019s<\/a> poorest residents, including indigenous and stateless communities, live in closely packed, wooden stilt houses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/20\/fire-destroys-1000-stilt-homes-in-malaysias-sabah-displacing-thousands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blaze struck a \u2018water village\u2019 that is home to some of Malaysia\u2019s poorest residentsA huge fire destroyed about 1,000 makeshift homes, many of them built on stilts over water, and displaced thousands of people in a coastal village in Malaysia\u2019s Sabah st&#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":[41,455,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-extreme-weather","category-malaysia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079","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=77079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77080,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77079\/revisions\/77080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}