{"id":21189,"date":"2018-11-05T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21189"},"modified":"2018-11-05T14:23:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:23:42","slug":"asias-raging-war-against-meth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21189","title":{"rendered":"Asia&#8217;s raging war against meth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>From the jungles of Myanmar to the streets of Hong Kong, police throughout Asia are fighting a war against methamphetamine. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">By many indications, they&#8217;re losing.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Demand for both crystal meth and yaba, tablets that typically contain a mixture of meth and caffeine, is skyrocketing. Production is increasing at an unprecedented clip, and so is the body count. Leaders in places like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/08\/asia\/bangladesh-drug-war-intl\/index.html\">Bangladesh<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/specials\/asia\/philippines-drugs-war\">Philippines<\/a> are waging deadly drug wars that have cost thousands of lives.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)From the jungles of Myanmar to the streets of Hong Kong, police throughout Asia are fighting a war against methamphetamine. By many indications, they&#8217;re losing.Demand for both crystal meth and yaba, tablets that typically contain a mixture of meth and caffeine, is skyrocketing. Production is increasing at an unprecedented clip, and so is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":21190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}