{"id":8021,"date":"2019-08-28T23:31:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/cathay-pacific-denounced-for-firing-hong-kong-staff-on-china-orders"},"modified":"2019-08-28T23:31:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T14:31:14","slug":"cathay-denounced-for-firing-hong-kong-staff-after-pressure-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8021","title":{"rendered":"Cathay denounced for firing Hong Kong staff after pressure from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City also sees separate rally against alleged sexual violence by police against participants in protest movement <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/hong-kong\">Hong Kong<\/a> on Wednesday to denounce Cathay Pacific for firing staff after it came under pressure from Beijing \u2013 describing the case as symptomatic of the wider intimidation of protesters and sympathisers. <\/p>\n<p>Businesses, pushed to voice support for the authorities, are facing a growing backlash from employees and customers who see the pressure as part of a broad strategy to wear down opposition after two and a half months of protests sparked by a controversial extradition bill. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/28\/cathay-pacific-denounced-for-firing-hong-kong-staff-on-china-orders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City also sees separate rally against alleged sexual violence by police against participants in protest movement Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Hong Kong on Wednesday to denounce Cathay Pacific for firing staff after it came under pressure from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"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":[665,41,6,50,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airline-industry","category-asia-pacific","category-business","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\/8021","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\/444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8022,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions\/8022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}