{"id":276784,"date":"2019-05-30T07:14:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=276784"},"modified":"2019-05-30T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T07:38:07","slug":"papua-new-guinea-pm-resigns-throwing-gas-deal-into-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/papua-new-guinea-pm-resigns-throwing-gas-deal-into-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Papua New Guinea PM resigns, throwing gas deal into doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s embattled prime minister stepped down on Wednesday, capping a months-long political crisis and calling a multi-billion-dollar French and US-backed gas deal into question.<\/p>\n<p>Facing a string of cabinet resignations and a vote of no confidence he looked sure to lose, veteran leader Peter O\u2019Neill told parliament he had handed his letter of resignation to the country\u2019s governor general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hereby tender my resignation as Prime Minister of the independent state of Papua New Guinea, effective immediately\u201d read the letter that was obtained by AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papua New Guinea\u2019s embattled prime minister stepped down on Wednesday, capping a months-long political crisis and calling a multi-billion-dollar French and US-backed gas deal into question. Facing a string of cabinet resignations and a vote of no confidence he looked sure to lose, veteran leader Peter O\u2019Neill told parliament he had handed his letter of resignation to the country\u2019s governor general. \u201cI hereby tender my resignation as Prime Minister of the independent state of Papua New Guinea, effective immediately\u201d read the letter that was obtained by AFP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}