{"id":7758,"date":"2019-08-26T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/more-hongkongers-look-to-move-to-australia-amid-growing-political-unrest"},"modified":"2019-08-26T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T18:00:18","slug":"more-hongkongers-look-to-move-to-australia-amid-growing-political-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=7758","title":{"rendered":"More Hongkongers look to move to Australia amid growing political unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Migration agent says housing and other economic factors are also driving residents to consider moving<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/21\/hong-kong-protesters-clash-riot-police-metro-station\">Hong Kong\u2019s continuing political unrest<\/a> has led to a surge in applications from residents seeking to emigrate, including to Australia, and some migration agents are reporting a doubling in inquiries as the protests run into their third month.<\/p>\n<p>Australia was the top destination for Hong Kong emigrants in 2018 \u2013 nearly a third (2,400) of the 7,600 Hongkongers who left last year went to Australia.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/26\/more-hongkongers-look-to-move-to-australia-amid-growing-political-unrest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migration agent says housing and other economic factors are also driving residents to consider movingHong Kong\u2019s continuing political unrest has led to a surge in applications from residents seeking to emigrate, including to Australia, and some migrati&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"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":[41,43,639,48,491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-extradition","category-hong-kong","category-migration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7758\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}