{"id":10919,"date":"2011-03-21T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10919"},"modified":"2011-03-18T13:08:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:08:44","slug":"cambodia-compromise-offer-on-us-dirty-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/03\/cambodia-compromise-offer-on-us-dirty-debt\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: Compromise Offer on US &#8216;Dirty Debt&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia has offered to repay 30 per cent of the debt owed to the US, as a &#8220;compromise&#8221; over money which it says was used by a pro-American government in the 1970s to repress its own people.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen had asked the US to forgive what he called the &#8220;dirty debt&#8221; built up by the Lon Nol military government that came to power in a 1970 coup backed by Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia proposed yesterday that the rest be converted into development aid at interest of 1 per cent, rather than the 3 per cent demanded by Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/cambodia-compromise-offer-on-us-dirty-debt-2245215.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 independent.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodia has offered to repay 30 per cent of the debt owed to the US, as a &#8220;compromise&#8221; over money which it says was used by a pro-American government in the 1970s to repress its own people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}