{"id":15279,"date":"2020-08-05T14:20:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/?p=15279"},"modified":"2020-08-05T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T06:51:31","slug":"lebanon-we-stand-with-you-and-behind-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/lebanon-we-stand-with-you-and-behind-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon, we stand with you and behind you"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"5000\" height=\"2813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/lebanon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15292\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Press statement by Teo Nie Ching <br>5th August 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, an explosion near Beirut\u2019s port claimed the lives of at least 78 people and injured at least 4000 more, with many still unaccounted for. The explosion is said to have been caused by explosive materials confiscated between 2013 and 2014 by the Lebanese government, according to the country\u2019s director of general security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Action Party (DAP) Malaysia has asked, and is urging, the Malaysian government to render assistance to Lebanon in any way necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We join the world in mourning for the lives affected by such a terrible tragedy. Our hearts and prayers go out to Lebanon, its people, its government, and our sister party the Lebanese Progressive Socialist Party, as they navigate this catastrophe in the midst of a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To Lebanon, we stand with you and behind you, with fervent hopes that no more lives are claimed by the explosion and those missing are found.<br><br><strong>Teo Nie Ching<br>DAP International Secretary<br>MP for Kulai<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press statement by Teo Nie Ching 5th August 2020 Last night, an explosion near Beirut\u2019s port claimed the lives of at least 78 people and injured at least 4000 more, with many still unaccounted for. The explosion is said to have been caused by explosive materials confiscated between 2013 and 2014 by the Lebanese government, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,274],"tags":[120,669,147],"class_list":["post-15279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current","category-national","tag-dap","tag-lebanon","tag-teo-nie-ching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15296,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15279\/revisions\/15296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therocket.com.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}