{"id":22707,"date":"2021-03-27T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=22707"},"modified":"2021-03-27T11:51:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T08:51:27","slug":"malawi-blocks-export-of-precious-stone-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/malawi-blocks-export-of-precious-stone-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Blocks Export Of &#8216;precious stone&#8217; To China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malawi has for the second time stopped the export of &#8220;a precious stone&#8221; to China because it had been sold below its true value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week government officials approved the sale of the boulder for two million kwacha ($2,500; \u00a31,800) and it was due to be exported to China this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mines Minister Rashid Gaffar told the BBC he ordered the shipping halted because he did not believe a stone, for which two Chinese nationals were fined seven million kwacha ($8,800; \u00a36,400) when trying to export it two years ago, could be sold for less than the fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll I want is for an investigation to be carried out to ascertain if officials in my ministry sold the stone for a price that represents its true value,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A video of the stone in a shipping container has been shared online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi has for the second time stopped the export of &#8220;a precious stone&#8221; to China because it had been sold below its true value. Last week government officials approved the sale of the boulder for two million kwacha ($2,500; \u00a31,800) and it was due to be exported to China this week. Mines Minister Rashid Gaffar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":22708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-22707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22709,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22707\/revisions\/22709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}