{"id":128520,"date":"2022-09-14T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=128520"},"modified":"2022-09-14T14:52:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:52:39","slug":"forged-lotus-tower-entrance-ticket-chinese-embassy-clarifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/09\/14\/forged-lotus-tower-entrance-ticket-chinese-embassy-clarifies\/","title":{"rendered":"Forged Lotus Tower entrance ticket &#8211; Chinese Embassy clarifies."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Chinese Embassy in Colombo has clarified reports circulating on social media pertaining to the entry tickets of the Lotus Tower in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An image of a ticket claiming to be that of the Lotus Tower has been circulated on social media with information on exemptions for Parliamentarians and Chinese Nationals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clarifying the issue, the Chinese Embassy in Colombo said that the ticket being circulated on social media currently is fake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Embassy further shared an image of the original ticket of the Lotus Tower that will be issued to the public tomorrow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first stage of the Lotus Tower also known as Nelum Kulunu will be declared open to the public tomorrow, the 15th of September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-128521\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiru News The Chinese Embassy in Colombo has clarified reports circulating on social media pertaining to the entry tickets of the Lotus Tower in Colombo. An image of a ticket claiming to be that of the Lotus Tower has been circulated on social media with information on exemptions for Parliamentarians and Chinese Nationals. Clarifying the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-fake-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}