{"id":403598,"date":"2021-03-08T10:21:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=403598"},"modified":"2021-03-08T11:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T05:41:22","slug":"nationwide-electricity-outage-in-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nationwide-electricity-outage-in-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide electricity outage in Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity supply was cut across many areas of Myanmar on Friday because of a \u201csystem breakdown\u201d, according to multiple government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>People started posting on Twitter and Facebook about the widespread blackouts across commercial hub Yangon at around 1:30 pm local time (0600 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA system breakdown is causing power outages across the country,\u201d reported Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation in central Yangon\u2019s Yankin township.<\/p>\n<p>Further north in the city of Magway, along the Irrawaddy River, the region\u2019s Electricity Supply enterprise reported the same. <\/p>\n<p>Netizens on Facebook \u2014 an extremely popular platform in Myanmar \u2014 similarly reported electricity blackouts in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity supply was cut across many areas of Myanmar on Friday because of a \u201csystem breakdown\u201d, according to multiple government agencies. People started posting on Twitter and Facebook about the widespread blackouts across commercial hub Yangon at around 1:30 pm local time (0600 GMT). \u201cA system breakdown is causing power outages across the country,\u201d reported Yangon Electricity Supply Corporation in central Yangon\u2019s Yankin township. Further north in the city of Magway, along the Irrawaddy River, the region\u2019s Electricity Supply enterprise reported the same. Netizens on Facebook \u2014 an extremely popular platform in Myanmar \u2014 similarly reported electricity blackouts in other [&hellip;]<\/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":[130,244,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403598","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=403598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}