{"id":4326,"date":"2008-05-06T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T00:38:58","slug":"xinhua_15000_dead_in_burmese_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/state-media\/xinhua_15000_dead_in_burmese_c.php","title":{"rendered":"Xinhua: 15,000 dead in Burmese cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Western news sources are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&#038;sid=amBnEMDZq5wY&#038;refer=home\">still reporting<\/a> a death toll of around 10,000 in the cyclone that hit Myanmar yesterday,  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-05\/05\/content_8110974.htm\">Xinhua says<\/a> the number is 15,000.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, Reuters reports from Washington DC:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Making an unusual foray into foreign policy, [American first lady] Mrs. Bush, an outspoken critic of Myanmar&#8217;s generals, also accused the junta of failing to warn its citizens in time about the approaching cyclone that has been blamed for at least 10,000 deaths.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it a teensy bit rich for Mrs Bush to lecture another country&#8217;s leaders on their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Katrina\">negligence in the face of a tropical storm<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua: 15,000 death toll from cyclone<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/state-media\/xinhua_15000_dead_in_burmese_c.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[1427,2296,2297,1790,1791,133],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-media","tag-burma","tag-cyclone","tag-myanmar","tag-storms","tag-weather","tag-xinhua"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}