{"id":277641,"date":"2024-09-23T12:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=277641"},"modified":"2024-09-23T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T04:24:32","slug":"malaysia-flood-evacuees-rise-to-over-8000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=277641","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia Flood Evacuees Rise To Over 8,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Flooding has displaced 8,545 people in several states in Malaysia as of yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The worst affected was the Kedah state, in the north-western part of peninsula Malaysia, with 8,394 people being housed in 41 flood relief centres, according to the country&#8217;s social welfare department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, announced 13 million ringgit (about three million U.S. dollars) in aid, for victims in Kedah state, following a visit to the affected areas late on Saturday, and ordered government officials to monitor flood mitigation projects, currently under way, to prevent delays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other affected states include Selangor, Perak and the northern Borneo state of Sarawak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meteorological department had previously warned of heavy continuous rain, as the South-west monsoon season is underway, with bad weather expected to persist through Sept.&#8211; NNN-BERNAMA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 23 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8211; Flooding has displaced 8,545 people in several states in Malaysia as of yesterday afternoon. The worst affected was the Kedah state, in the north-western part of peninsula Malaysia, with 8,394 people being housed in 41 flood relief centres, according to the country&#8217;s social welfare department. Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":277647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288,322,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277641"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277644,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277641\/revisions\/277644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}